ELDERLY TENANT. A tenant or tenant household in which at least one member is at least 62 years of age as of the date of receipt of any notice or the exercising of any right, whichever may occur later, under this Section.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS.
(1) Any building or buildings, structure or structures or part thereof or land appurtenant thereto, or any other real or personal property rented or offered for rent for living or dwelling purposes, within the city, including without limitation, houses, apartments, condominium units, cooperative units, rooming or boarding house units and other properties used for living or dwelling purposes, together with all services connected with the use or occupancy of such property; provided however, that mobile homes, trailers or trailer or mobile home lots in mobile home parks, and publicly owned dwelling units shall not be subject to this Section, but shall continue to be subject to the protections contained in Subsection 10-2.2, and that to the extent such HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS are publicly owned housing, publicly subsidized housing or federally assisted housing within the meaning of M.G.L. Chapter 40P, Section 3(c), such that the city may have continued rent control enabling authority for such housing accommodation, such housing accommodation shall not be subject to this Section, but shall continue to be subject to the protections contained in Sections 10-2 and 10-3 that the following shall not be contained within the definition of HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS for the purpose of this Section:
(a) Housing accommodations which the United States or the commonwealth or any authority created under the laws thereof either owns or operates;
(b) Housing accommodations in any hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution or college or school dormitory operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes, or in any nursing or rest home for the aged;
(c) Buildings containing fewer than four residential units, except for buildings which are part of a housing development as defined herein;
(d) Housing accommodations in hotels, motels, inns, tourist homes and rooming and boarding houses which are occupied by transient guests staying for a period of fewer than 14 consecutive calendar days;
(e) Housing accommodations which are converted to a limited equity housing cooperative organized and operated primarily for the benefit of low to moderate income persons, and whose equity, after allowance for the maximum transfer value of its stock, is dedicated through recorded deed restrictions to providing housing to persons of low and moderate income for a period of no less than 30 years; and
(f) Subsidized housing accommodations which are to be converted to a condominium structure in order to enable the necessary financing to retain, replace or augment the subsidized housing units.
(2) In addition, the following housing accommodations, while within the definition contained in St. 1983, c. 527, as amended, shall only be subject to the provisions or requirements contained in St. 1983, c. 527, as amended, to the extent not exempted under division (1)(a) through (1)(e) above, and not to the additional provisions or requirements contained in this Section:
(a) Housing accommodations constructed, or created by conversion from a non-housing to a housing use, on or after November 30, 1983;
(b) Housing accommodations which were constructed or substantially rehabilitated pursuant to any federal mortgage insurance program, without any interest subsidy or tenant subsidy or tenant subsidy attached thereto; and
(c) Housing accommodations financed through the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, with an interest subsidy attached thereto.