Walsh to File Ordinance Requiring Tenant Rights Notice with Every Eviction Filing

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip9061 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

Boston enters COVID red zone as eviction moratorium set to expire in 15 days. Mayor Marty Walsh announced at a July 22 press briefing that he will file an ordinance Monday requiring landlords to include multilingual tenant-rights and resource information with every notice to quit, ahead of the October 17 expiration of the state eviction moratorium. Boston recorded 82 new COVID-19 cases the prior day, bringing the city's total to 17,329, with the positive test rate at 3.5 percent and a 4 percent threshold tied directly to the future of Boston Public Schools' hybrid in-person model.

The city's Office of Housing Stability is fielding calls at four times last year's rate, and Walsh said a city rental relief fund has so far helped 900 families. The mayor also announced that applications for $25 million in Community Preservation Act funding open Monday, and that 27 early-voting sites will be operational October 17 through October 30 for the November 3 election.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip9061 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.