Northampton’s Housing Partnership exploring rental fee changes
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Published: 3/12/2021 3:41:00 PM
NORTHAMPTON — Saying that the fees some rental agencies charge tenants to secure a place to live create a barrier to living in the city, the city’s Housing Partnership has been talking about the possibility of shifting those fees from renters to landlords — but it may take a change to state law to do so.
The finder’s fees that rental agencies charge to renters were a much-discussed issue at focus groups for a study of fair housing in Northampton, said Todd Weir, the partnership’s chairman.