While public housing tenants are fortunate to have controlled rents, tenants in the private market are not so lucky. We all have friends and family in the private market, where we know that rents can double overnight.
Massachusetts legislators can pass rent stabilization this year to allow cities and towns to opt into rent stabilization. They have one more chance to protect residents and deliver the housing affordability our communities need before the end of the current legislative session on July 31.
Take Action
- Find your Representative and Senator: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator
- Call your legislators and ask them to pass local option rent stabilization before July 31. You can use the script below, but make sure to include any insights or stories of your own!
- My name is [name] and I live at [street address] in [city or town].
- I am calling to urge you to pass local option rent stabilization before July 31.
- As a [tenant / homeowner / small landlord], I support common sense rent stabilization and urge the legislature to pass rent stabilization because [personal story].
- Can we count on [the legislator] to support passing legislation by July 31?
- Rally at the State House on July 29. Join rent control supporters from across the Commonwealth in at the State House on Wednesday, July 29 at 11am. Together we’ll show Massachusetts legislators exactly what’s at stake and who’s watching. RSVP at hfma.us/July29Rally.