Housing

About the Housing Department

The Office of Housing exists to maintain and improve the city's housing stock. The office provides loans to income-eligible homeowners for exterior paint, lead abatement, general rehabilitation, and furnace repair and replacement. Other activities include home-buyer education, financial assistance for qualified first-time home-buyers, production of rental housing via rehabilitation, redevelopment of boarded and abandoned property, demolition of abandoned, dangerous structures and oversight of federally-funded programs for the homeless.

The Office of Housing also includes the Housing Inspectional Services Division which consists of nine inspectors responsible for the enforcement of Massachusetts State Sanitary Code and City Ordinances that pertain to improving the City's Housing Stock.