Chapter 121B: HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL
- Section 1 Definitions
- Section 2 Severability
- Section 3 Housing authorities; creation; dissolution
- Section 3A Regional housing authorities; creation; dissolution
- Section 4 Redevelopment authorities; creation; dissolution
- Section 5 Housing and redevelopment authorities; membership; appointment; election; term of office
- Section 5A Waiver of requirement to appoint tenant member to housing authority board
- Section 5B Comprehensive training program for members of a housing or redevelopment authority; technical assistance training for tenant members
- Section 6 Housing and redevelopment authorities; charges against members; hearing; removal; resignation; suspension
- Section 7 Officers and executive director of housing and redevelopment authorities; compensation of members
- Section 7A Guidelines for contracts to be executed by housing authority and executive director
- Section 8 Operating agencies; housing authorities
- Section 9 Urban renewal agencies
- Section 10 Operating agencies; designation of authorities
- Section 11 Powers of operating agencies
- Section 12 Operating agencies; wages; labor requirements; social security
- Section 13 Operating agencies; contract and tort liability; member's personal liability; relocation of utility facilities
- Section 14 Operating agencies; federal loans; conveyance upon default
- Section 15 Operating agencies; bonds, notes, certificates; negotiable instruments
- Section 16 Exemption from taxation for real estate and tangible personal property of operating agency; revaluation or reassessment of real property; payments in lieu of taxes
- Section 17 Liability of commonwealth or political subdivisions for debts of housing authority
- Section 18 Preparation of master plans, etc. by city or town; appropriation and payment
- Section 19 Initial costs and annual operating expenses of operating agencies; appropriations and payment by city
- Section 20 Development, acquisition and operating costs; relocation payments; losses; appropriation and payment by city
- Section 21 Indebtedness limitation
- Section 22 Repealed, 2016, 218, Sec. 217
- Section 23 Municipal powers
- Section 24 Agreement to bear acquisition loss
- Section 25 Housing programs; statement of emergency
- Section 26 Powers of a housing authority
- Section 26A Powers of department in city without housing authority; financing of projects; bonds and notes; issuance and sale; approval of city or town
- Section 26B Performance-based monitoring program; assessment standards
- Section 26C Best practices program for allowing authorities to work collaboratively; provisions of program; capital assistance team; director; members
- Section 26D Names and contact information of all members and senior staff to be posted on wall of community center and on website
- Section 27 Rural housing authority; additional powers
- Section 28 Application of laws, ordinances, and regulations of cities or towns relating to buildings, planning, zoning and public health
- Section 28A Annual plan; availability to public for review and comment
- Section 29 Accounts and reports of housing authorities; review of financial records; availability to public; audit; investigations by department; rules and regulations of department
- Section 30 Contract with federal government; acquiring federally owned project
- Section 31 Submission of plans for low-rent housing project to department; application; hearing; disposition
- Section 32 Maintenance and operation of project; rentals; tenant selection; eligibility for continued occupancy; hearings; waiver
- Section 32A Parking areas; rules and regulations; towing
- Section 32B Definitions
- Section 32C Unlawful conduct by tenant, members or non-members of tenant household; civil action by landlord for injunctive or other equitable relief
- Section 32D Actions by tenants or tenants' organizations
- Section 32E Jurisdiction over civil actions; appellate review
- Section 32F Restraining orders and injunctions; form; service; enforcement; violations; effect; modification and vacation
- Section 32G Temporary absences from commonwealth; presumption of abandonment of residency and eligibility for assistance
- Section 33 Equivalent elimination of substandard dwelling units
- Section 34 State and federal financial assistance; general provisions
- Section 34A Contracts for state financial assistance on leased MHFA projects to provide replacement or relocation housing; annual contributions; limitations
- Section 34B Commonwealth guaranteed temporary notes; authorization and execution; sale and refunding limitations; terms
- Section 35 Contracts for supplementary state financial assistance
- Section 36 Receipt of loans and grants from federal sources or from other sources
- Section 37 Commonwealth grants; guarantee of temporary notes; sale, maintenance, and operation of relocation projects; limitations on eminent domain
- Section 38 Housing for elderly persons and persons with disabilities; declaration of policy
- Section 38A Bureau of housing for persons with disabilities; director; functions
- Section 38B Housing for elderly persons and persons with disabilities; service coordinator program
- Section 38C Program to conduct annual surveys of public housing residents
- Section 38D Regional public housing innovation program; goals; application for participation in program; funds; powers and projects
- Section 39 Power to provide housing for elderly persons and persons with disabilities of low income; priorities in placement
- Section 40 Provisions applicable to housing for elderly persons and persons with disabilities of low income
- Section 41 State financial assistance; housing for elderly persons of low income
- Section 41A State financial assistance; housing for persons with disabilities of low income
- Section 42 Rental assistance program; declaration of necessity
- Section 43 Contracts to rent, lease or provide financial assistance to housing units by housing authorities
- Section 43A Rental assistance program; relocation of residents; leased housing units
- Section 44 Rental assistance program; rentals and tenant selection
- Section 44A Leasing of housing units in MHFA projects for replacement or relocation housing authorized
- Section 45 Urban renewal programs declaration of necessity
- Section 46 Powers of urban renewal agency
- Section 47 Urban renewal programs; acquisition by eminent domain; notice; petition
- Section 48 Public hearing; notice; urban renewal plans; approval; acquisition of property
- Section 49 Sale or lease of property acquired for urban renewal project
- Section 50 Delegation of power to municipality to plan and undertake urban renewal project
- Section 51 Redevelopment authority taking over project initiated by housing authority
- Section 52 Accounts and reports of urban renewal agencies; civil service rules
- Section 53 Application for urban renewal assistance grant or urban revitalization and development grant
- Section 54 State aid for urban renewal; determination of compliance and final approved cost; notice
- Section 55 State aid for urban renewal; certification and payment of grants
- Section 56 State aid for urban renewal; contract to provide financial assistance
- Section 57 State aid for urban renewal; advance of funds; amount; payments
- Section 57A Repealed, 2012, 238, Sec. 47
- Section 58 Other urban renewal programs; declaration of necessity
- Section 59 Contracts for state financial assistance; rehabilitation projects
- Section 60 Housing Preservation and Stabilization Trust Fund