Category Archives: For Your Information

New resources, publications, programs, and other information related to preventing foreclosures and evictions, and the fight against the foreclosure crisis.

Press Release: Homeowners Speak Out: Preforeclosure Mediation Needed to Stop Predatory Foreclosures

Download Press Release ( PDF ) On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, members of the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) gathered at the State House with supporters and homeowners from across the Commonwealth to give testimony before the Joint Committee … Continue reading

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Press Release: Will Judge Fields uphold the Constitution and his own orders for King and We the People?

Download this Press Release ( PDF ) Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending www.maapl.info Contact: Grace Ross, 617-291-5591 For immediate release, June 23, 2023 Will Judge Fields uphold the Constitution and his own orders for King and We the People? Friday, … Continue reading

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Press Release: Homeowners and Their Supporters Reveal 150 Years of Predatory Lending

Download the full Press Release here ( PDF ) Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending www.maapl.info                      maaplinfo@gmail.com For Immediate Release: 6/20/2023 Contact: Grace Ross – MAAPL coordinator, (617) 291-5591  HOMEOWNERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS REVEAL 150 YEARS OF PREDATORY DISCRIMINATORY LENDING … Continue reading

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Action Alert: Press Conference and Juneteenth Rally on Tuesday, June 20th!

Please join the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) for a Press Conference and Juneteenth Rally on Beacon Hill! Click the image above to enlarge it. Click here to download. WHEN: Tuesday, June 20th, 12:00-1:00 PM WHERE: 3 Pemberton Square, … Continue reading

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South Essex Register O’Brien: “I refuse to enforce discriminatory mortgages”

On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 in Salem, Massachusetts, the South Essex County Register of Deeds, the Honorable John L. O’Brien, Jr., announced at a press conference at the Salem Registry of Deeds that he has filed to intervene in the … Continue reading

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Press Release: Eviction Not Final Outcome of 16 Year Predatory Discriminatory Loan

On Thursday, October 20, 2022, the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) released a statement to the media regarding the wrongful eviction case of Alton King, a Black senior with a disability. King has an open case in the Massachusetts … Continue reading

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Press Release: NEAC of NAACP Files Amicus Brief in Alton King Case

On Thursday, August 25, 2022, the New England Area Conference (NEAC) of the NAACP released a statement to the media regarding its filing of an amicus brief in the Supreme Judicial Court case Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee … Continue reading

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MA Homeowners Forge a Milestone Victory at Supreme Judicial Court!

On Friday, July 29, 2022, MAAPL released a statement to the media marking and celebrating a breakthrough legal decision that was handed down on July 22, 2022 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. On that date, the Court affirmed in … Continue reading

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Action Alert: Join MAAPL for SJC Oral Arguments on Monday, 4/4/22

The Morrises’ case is now up at the Massachusetts SJC to be HEARD, this MONDAY, April 4, 2022 at about 10:30am (time is not exact) This is our first chance to show the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that it needs … Continue reading

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