Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40P, § 2 (2026)
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Section 2. The purpose of this chapter is to establish a uniform statewide policy that broadly prohibits any regulatory scheme based upon or implementing rent control, except where, following an initial six month period, compliance with such a scheme is voluntary and uncoerced on the part of property owners. Even when voluntary, rent control should be severely restricted in scope. This policy is based on the belief that the public is best served by free market rental rates for residential properties and by unrestricted home ownership. The terms of this chapter shall be liberally construed to effect this purpose.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1999–2006 · leading case: Gross v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., Inc., 718 N.E.2d 383 (Mass. App. Ct. 1999).
Gross v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., Inc., 718 N.E.2d 383 (Mass. App. Ct. 1999). “” G. L. c. 40P, § 2. The statute’s definition of the rent control arrangements to be eliminated excluded “the regulation of, or agreements affecting, publicly owned housing, publicly subsidized housing, federally assisted housing, or mobile homes.”
Greater Boston Real Est. Bd. v. City of Boston, 705 N.E.2d 256 (Mass. 1999). “” G. L. c. 40P, §§ 2, 3. The Legislature then adopted St.”
Realty v. McManus, 2006 Mass. App. Div. 130 (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 2006). “40P, §2, the purpose of the Rent Control Prohibition Act is stated to be the establishment of a policy “based on the belief that the public is best served by free market rental rates for residential properties....” As noted earlier, G.”
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