Your home matters. If you’re facing eviction, unsafe living conditions, a rent increase, or problems with public or subsidized housing, we’re here to help. Our housing attorneys and advocates work to keep families housed, protect tenants’ rights, and prevent homelessness.
Our mission is to use our power of legal advocacy to eradicate homelessness, to keep tenants in their homes, to expand truly affordable housing, to empower communities most affected by
housing crises, and to ensure that governments and landlords are accountable to those
most in need.
What We Help With
GBLS focuses on housing issues that affect your safety, stability, and well-being. We provide legal services for tenants facing the following legal issues.
- Eviction Defense: If you received a Notice to Quit or an eviction summons, or if you are
locked out of your home, or are being illegally evicted - Subsidy Termination: If you received a Termination Notice
- Denial of Admission to Subsidized Housing: If you were denied admission to public housing,
subsidized housing, or a voucher program - Eviction Record Sealing: If you faced eviction in court in the past, and you would like to seal
the case - Emergency Access Shelter and HomeBASE Terminations and Denials: If you received a
Termination Notice from shelter, or denied access to a state shelter program
Reach Out to the Housing Intake
Call our hotline at 617-603-1807 and follow the instructions to leave a message. One
of our intake specialists will contact you by phone.
Other Work
The Housing unit works closely with tenant associations in private, subsidized, and public
housing. To inquire about these services and partnerships, please contact one of our
community partners:
- City Life / Vida Urbana
- La Colaborativa / Chelsea Collaborative
- Mass Union of Public Housing Tenants
- Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
Additional & Related Services
- Foreclosure Defense: Visit the CRU website.
- Tenant Screening: Visit the CRU website.
- Issues Related to Assisted Living Residences: Visit the EHDU website.
Ready to Get Help?
If you’re facing eviction or another urgent housing issue, don’t wait. Reach out to us.