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Somerville Mun. Code ch. 7 (Housing) § 7-64

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Somerville Mun. Code ch. 7 (Housing) § 7-64
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Somerville (municipal)
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Relocation payments. An owner shall pay to a tenant who is entitled to receive notice of the owner’s intent to convert, and who does not purchase the unit which such tenant occupies or another unit in the same housing accommodation and who relocates within the notice period or such longer period allowed for access to public or subsidized housing as set forth in this section below, a relocation payment which will be adjusted annually based on the consumer price index. The relocation amounts, as of this ordinance’s effective date, from which subsequent adjustments shall be made, is $18,000 for elderly, disabled, or low/moderate income tenants and $14,000 for all other tenants. Relocation payments are per unit, except is notice is not provided as outlined in section 7-64(b)(2). In that case an additional relocation payment shall be paid to those tenants. This dollar amount shall be adjusted annually in February of each year, by an amount equal to the increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics) during the immediately preceding calendar year. Adjusted relocation amounts shall be publicly posted on the city's website. If a tenant vacates the premises pursuant to a notice under this ordinance without having paid all rent due, the owner may subtract any sums owed from the required payment of moving expenses. in the event an elderly, disabled, low or moderate income tenant is seeking public or subsidized housing and requires a judgment for possession to be issued in order to obtain emergency status or other preference/priority necessary to access such housing or housing subsidy program on an expedited basis, such tenant shall continue to be entitled to the relocation benefit