Dataset
Short-Term Rental Eligibility
[**Click here to check Short-Term Rental Eligibility**](https://data.boston.gov/dataset/short-term-rental-eligibility/resource/83621b97-9a00-4aa7-bf43-28cae04969d4) <br/> Boston's ordinance on short-term rentals is designed to incorporate the growth of the home-share industry into the City's work…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Department of Innovation and Technology
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 17
- Keywords
- apartment, assessing, ordinance, properties, property, registration, rental, residents, short-term rental, unit, violations
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/short-term-rental-eligibility
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 23107422 | 545bb63941673336620dea398b8a6311e45dac7e778afa83491b88133367bfad | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
sam_address_id | text | |
issued_registration | text | |
sam_address | text | |
home-share eligible | text | |
limited-share eligible | text | |
owner-adjacent eligible | text | |
owners_current_license_types | text | |
income restricted | text | |
problem property | text | |
problem property owner | text | |
open violation count | text | |
violations in the last 6 months | text | |
legally restricted | text | |
unit owner-occupied | text | |
building owner-occupied | text | |
units in building | text | |
building single owner | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:short-term-rental-eligibility
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/short-term-rental-eligibility
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/short-term-rental-eligibility.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- short-term-rental-eligibility
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |