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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.
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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.
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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!
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Author Archives: MAAPL
Action Alert: Call Governor Patrick Now!
Call Governor Patrick Now: Dangerous Foreclosure Bill Removes Rights Provisions – He Must Act! Please call the Governor today through Monday, July 30th! The Foreclosure Bill as passed has almost none of the changes MAAPL and its members have fought … Continue reading
Press Release: 11th Hour Provision Sells Out Victims of Illegal Foreclosure
MAAPL: 11th Hour Provision Sells Out Victims of Illegal Foreclosure Last-minute addition to ‘compromise bill’ bars homeowners from reclaiming homes illegally-seized and sold to investors or other third parties. BEACON HILL – An 11th hour addition to the so-called “compromise” … Continue reading
Action Alert: Join Us Tomorrow on the State House Steps!
Imagine… No more foreclosures, vacancies, lost homes, destroyed neighborhoods or plummeting property values. Instead… Your lender’s authorized representative must negotiate with you in person; They have to come to the negotiating table and bring all your papers; And they must … Continue reading
Urgent Action – 6/24/2012
Both the Massachusetts Senate and House have passed versions of the Foreclosure Bill (H.4087/S.2298). NOW we need the best of both versions to come out of the negotiations of their conference committee–especially Mandatory Mediation. WE NEED YOU TO CALL YOUR … Continue reading
URGENT ACTION NEEDED – Vote in Senate on Wednesday, June 6th!
Please Call your State Senators on Tuesday, June 5th to support 3 critical amendments to the Foreclosure bill that was just voted out of the Senate Ways & Means Committee today! Legislation that includes these amendments would really make a … Continue reading
Welcome!
Welcome to the online home of the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL). Here you will find information about us and our work, including Timely information about current events related to the fight against fraudulent and predatory mortgage lending practices … Continue reading
Join us for the MAAPL Legislative Briefing on Foreclosure Impacts in Massachusetts!
MAAPL Legislative Briefing Tuesday, January 31, 2012 from 10:00 am to Noon Room B-2, Massachusetts State House Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Housing 44,100 Massachusetts foreclosures since 2007 = 88,000 households threatened. Our state economy loses $4.1B MONTHLY from … Continue reading
New MAAPL Documents Available for Download!
MAAPL has added the following new documents to its resource library: Testimony by Nadine Cohen to Congress: Opposing Mega Merger of Capital One and ING” PDF “MAAPL’s response to Fannie Mae’s Request For Information on the proposed disposition of post-foreclosure … Continue reading
MAAPL Releases New Report – Foreclosures: Denying Massachusetts an Economic Recovery
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, MAAPL held a Press Conference at the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, 18 Tremont St. in Boston to announce the release of a new major report on the wide range of harms–from health to … Continue reading
Borrowers Can Now Request An Independent Foreclosure Review
On November 1, 2011, the Federal Reserve Board announced that borrowers who believe they were financially harmed during the mortgage foreclosure process by specific participating institutions in 2009 and 2010 can now request an independent review and potentially receive compensation. … Continue reading