Resources for Tenants | City Life / Vida Urbana

Resources for Tenants

Advocacy and Organizing

Action for Boston Community Development 617-357-6000

Allston Brighton CDC 617-787-3874

Boston Rental Housing Resource Center 617-635-4200

City Life/Vida Urbana 617-524-3541

Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation 617-825-4224

Committee for Boston Public Housing 617-427-3556

East Boston Ecumenical Community Coalition 617-567-2750

Eviction Free Zone Cambridge 617-354-1300

Fenway CDC 617-267-4637

Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation 617-522-2424

Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants 617-267-2949

Mass. Senior Action Coalition 617-350-6722

Mass. Union of Public Housing Tenants 617-825-9750

Tri-Cap (Malden) 781-322-4125

WATCH CDC (Waltham) 781-891-6689


Legal Assistance

Community Legal Services and Counseling Center (Cambridge) 617-661-1010

Greater Boston Legal Services 617-371-1234

Harvard Legal Advocacy 617-495-4394

Jamaica Plain Legal Service Center 617-522-3003

Volunteer Lawyers Project 617-423-0648

Community Lawyers/Abogados de la Comunidad 617-522-7597

Jose Vargas 617-522-4583

Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing 617-723-0885

Robert Warren 617-983-1441


Housing Discrimination

Boston Fair Housing Commission 617-635-4408

Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights 617-482-1145

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination 617-727-3990


Public Housing and Section 8

Boston Housing Authority 617-988-4000

Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership 617-859-0400

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 617-994-8200

Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) 617-854-1000


Affordable and Subsidized Apartment Search

ABCD 357-6000

Boston Aging Concerns 266-2257 X203

Boston Center for Independent Living 338-6665

Cambridge Multi Service Center 349-6340

City Life/Vida Urbana 524-3541

Home Start 542-0338

Mass. Coalition for the Homeless 737-3508

Neighborhood for Affordable Housing 567-5882


Living with AIDS

AIDS Action Committee 437-6200

AIDS Housing Corporation 927-0088


Financial Assistance with Late Rent

City Hall 635-3692

City Mission 742-6830

Homeless Donation Assistance 737-3430

St. Vincent Society 542-0883

Salvation Army 542-5420

Travelers Aid 542-7286


Heating Oil Assistance

ABCD 357-6012

Citizens’ Energy 877-JOE-4-OIL


Resources for Asthma Management

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America 617-965-7771

Boston School Department 617-635-8079

(for children who may be able to receive tutoring because

they miss school due to asthma)

City Life/Vida Urbana 617-524-3541

Healthy Schools Network 617-635-8176