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...The terms of such recovery may include an increase in rent for such future periods as the court may order. No owner may increase rents because of repairs made pursuant to this section, except pursuant to such a court order...
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40T § 7 — Rent increases for protected low-income tenants after termination
...not exceed the total of four months' rent due to the owner from all affected tenants. Failure to exercise any rights under this section in any twelve-month period shall not increase a tenant's rights in any subsequent twelve...
...and shall be in an amount equal to the amount which would have been required to pay any increase in rent for comparable replacement housing over a four year period as defined above. In no event may the total payment...
...For 3 years after termination, the rent for a protected low-income tenant who does not receive an enhanced section 8 voucher shall not be increased more than once annually by the increase in the consumer price index applicable to...
(A) To pay any increase in cost required to lease or rent for a period of four years, a decent, safe, and sanitary comparable replacement dwelling of standards adequate to accommodate such person in an area similar with regard to...
The receipt of any notice of termination of tenancy, except for nonpayment of rent, or, of increase in rent, or, of any substantial alteration in the terms of tenancy within six months after the tenant has commenced, proceeded with, or...
ized percentage increases “according to the services given a tenant”).
The board may have learned from experience that where only a small percentage of an increase is withheld, the landlord lacks sufficient incentive to make the necessary repairs, particularly where the cost of the repairs would exceed the amount withheld...
On November 24, 1976, the board ordered a general adjustment increasing maximum rents for all controlled units, and on December 16, 1976, the board promulgated Regulation 11 to implement that order. “Regulation 11” provided that the adjustment would be effective...
2019, however, Burgess informed Dacey of a rental increase of sixty-five dollars, increasing the total rent to $1,315 per
7 Mass. App. Ct. 110, 118 (1979) (Statewide provision “would appear to permit” board to condition increase on “future compliance” with Sanitary Code).
...288 (1979), the Appellate Division upheld a municipal ordinance which required “substantial compliance” with city and State housing codes as a condition of periodic increases in rent. “The coupling of certain rental increases with . . . the basic habitability of the rental...
rent increases, the expenses incurred in maintaining the utility
Accordingly, we do not think it unreasonable for the board to have concluded that it may be necessary to deny the entire amount of a rent increase to ensure compliance with the habitability requirement. 17 *467
...Harp tried to interest other tenants in resisting the rent increase, and both he and the plaintiff withheld the June rent payment. After failing to pay the June rent, the plaintiff received a fourteen-day notice to quit, but on...
Casey received notice of a rent increase to $970 effective August 1, 2001, but there is no evidence she accepted this increase.
case, we think that the present statute, which contains an express policy favoring “repair, replacement or maintenance” of rental units, must be construed as giving Boston at least the general authority to link a rent increase with habitability, since that...
...be entered declaring that the rent control board of Cambridge “may inform tenants and landlords that rent adjustments made by its predecessor are null and void” means that the various authorizations for rent increases were' null and void from the...
Two of the other factors to be considered in determining fair net operating income are as follows: “(3) major capital improvement of the housing accomodations as distinguished from ordinary repair, replacement and maintenance; (4) increases or decreases in living space...