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Please help support our work to end the foreclosure crisis and protect homes, neighborhoods and communities with your generous, tax-deductible donation.
If you prefer to give by check, you can send your gift (make check payable to MAAPL) to MAAPL, c/o Grace Ross, 10 Oxford St. #2R, Worcester, MA 01609.
Thank you for your generous support of our work!Join the Next MAAPL Info Call!
Fighting foreclosure (past or present)? Join our next Info Call to learn how to defend your legal rights!
Info Calls will happen every Sunday at 5 pm until further notice.
To join the next call, dial (667) 770-1242, and use the code 9848314 when prompted.
MAAPL/WAFT Clinics Open to All Facing Foreclosure
MAAPL and The Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (WAFT), a MAAPL member group, gather every Monday night from 6-8 pm for pre-auction clinics, now happening online via Zoom.
For anyone who is pre-Foreclosure Auction, this is your chance to learn your case and start filing things to potentially forever stave off a foreclosure.Please join us via Zoom on Monday nights from 6-8 pm. Click this link to join the meeting.Meeting ID: 824 8313 2035
Passcode: 154725
Participant code: 304621MAAPL Returning Fighters! Meeting via ZoomThis meeting happens every Thursday from 6-7 pm. Click this link to join the meeting.
MAAPL
The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) is a coalition of approximately 70 housing counseling agencies, legal services groups, social service agencies, and community-based social action groups that have joined together to address the foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts.
Join us in the fight against predatory and fraudulent lending practices, help keep families in their homes, and support the passage of bills to protect homeowners and neighborhoods throughout Massachusetts!
Allied Organizations
Author Archives: MAAPL
Call Your Legislators! Support the House Version of S1987 Now!
Your voice matters: call your State Representative and Senator Monday! Tell them, “10 year Right to Sue or no bill at all! Support the House version of S1987.” Last week, your efforts as part of MAAPL made some bad foreclosure … Continue reading
Saturday, June 7th: Advancing the Anti-Foreclosure Movement
Dear Massachusetts Community Leaders, Organizers, Attorneys, Unionists, Advocates, Electeds, Neighbors, Friends, and Concerned Residents: Are you opposed to big banks? Support the 99%? It’s time to Advance the Anti-Foreclosure Movement! Come strategize next steps on Saturday, June 7, 2014 from … Continue reading
Action Alert: Pre-foreclosure Mediation Bill Hearing at State House
Save the Date! Next Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 both the Senate (#425) and House (#947) bills for pre-foreclosure mediation, An Act to Facilitate Alternatives to Foreclosure, have a hearing! We need you to show up in support of these important … Continue reading
MAAPL Releases Fact Sheet on Senate Bill S1987
The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending has released a 2-page Fact Sheet on Senate Bill S1987, “An Act clearing titles to foreclosed properties”. The Fact Sheet summarizes the effects of the bill, and provides answers to questions about those effects … Continue reading
Grace Ross Interviewed on WZBC on the Danger of S1987
On Saturday, January 25th, John Grebe of WZBC radio interviewed MAAPL Coordinator Grace Ross about the threat to Massachusetts homeowners posed by Senate Bill 1987. S1987 passed the Mass. Senate unanimously on Thursday, and has been submitted to the House … Continue reading
Action Alert: Oppose Senate Bill 1987!
Please take action today to protect the rights of homeowners to fight illegal foreclosures! This bill has already passed in the Senate by a unanimous vote. If it is passed in the House and signed by Governor Patrick, Senate Bill … Continue reading
City of Lynn Passes Foreclosure Ordinance
Lynn, Massachusetts implements strongest homeowner (and neighborhood and local bank) protections in face of foreclosures in the U.S. On June 17th, 2013, the City of Lynn, Massachusetts instituted the strongest municipal protections against the negative impacts of the foreclosure crisis … Continue reading
Breaking News: Megabanks Continue to Violate AG Settlement, MA Law
Settlement Banks Continue Endemic Violations of Massachusetts Law; New study documents violations – foreclosure victims call for immediate action! May 28, 2012 – “With over 50,000 foreclosures and counting since this key state law became a requirement before any residential … Continue reading
Action Alert: Hearing on MAAPL Bills Scheduled for 6/19
Two of the four bills that MAAPL introduced in the 2013 MA legislative session are coming up for a hearing before the Joint Committee on Judiciary at the State House on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 1:00 pm in Hearing … Continue reading
Action Alert: Ask Your State Legislators to Co-Sponsor MAAPL’s Foreclosure Bills for 2013!
As you may know, MAAPL has recently filed four new bills for the 2013 MA legislative session to help secure important rights and protections for homeowners facing foreclosure and eviction. Now we need your help to secure a good, solid … Continue reading