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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.
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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.
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!
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Category Archives: For Your Information
Press Advisory on S1987, in Support of House Version of Bill
Download a version of this Press Advisory in Word format Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending maaplinfo@yahoo.com www.MAAPL.info For Immediate Release Contact: Grace C Ross, 617-291-5591 Foreclosures Return to Torrential Levels; Activists Commend and Speak Out for House Leaders’ … Continue reading
Mass. Foreclosure Maps by County Show Spike in Petitions, Auctions
The maps linked below show the rise in both petitions (the first step in the foreclosure process) and auctions of foreclosed homes in counties throughout Massachusetts in May and June of 2014. Barnstable, Nantucket, and Dukes Counties Auctions and Petitions … Continue reading
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
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
Breaking News: Report Reveals 5 Megabanks Violating AG Settlement Agreement
The NEWS has been broken: an investigative report by our partner, GoLocalWorcester, reveals that affidavits by the 5 megabanks that signed the settlement with the Attorneys General and Federal agencies are STILL robosigning even though in their legally binding reports … Continue reading
Alert: Independent Foreclosure Review Deadline is This December 31st!
FINAL DEADLINE DECEMBER 31, 2012 TO APPLY FOR COMPENSATION Friends, this program can offer a wide range of potentially significant compensation, BUT it should be in addition to EVERYTHING else we need to do to protect our homes and financial … Continue reading
Thursday, Nov. 15: MAAPL Workshop on Reclaiming Foreclosed Homes
Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending Presents RECLAIMING FORECLOSED HOME/APARTMENT WORKSHOP Homeowners and tenants… Are you in foreclosure or living in a foreclosed property? YOU NEED TO COME TO THIS FREE WORKSHOP! We will be joined by legal advocates who will… … Continue reading