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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
Category Archives: Take Action!
Northeastern U Law Students Host MAAPL Training on 10/28/16
Free Training to Help MA Homeowners Fight Their Foreclosure—Law Students from All Schools Invited! Northeastern Law Students invite you to a training with Grace Ross, Coordinator of the Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL), to learn how to help homeowners … Continue reading
You Can Save Your Home from Senate #2015!
NEW DEADLINE 2/23/17 – This is the Constitutional deadline date. No Court has ruled that the legislative deadline could substitute for the Constitutional one; we expect the SJC will agree with us on a deadline of Feb. 23, 2017. KEEP … Continue reading
Grace Ross Receives NAACP Award, Starts Fundraising Drive
MAAPL is deeply pleased to announce that the New England Area Conference of the NAACP is awarding Grace Ross–our able coordinator–their highest honor: the Chaney Goodman Schwerner Award for lifelong achievement! The NAACP didn’t just select Grace for her long-term, unyielding commitment to … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Lori Cairns’ Eviction This Friday, 8/26/16!
As we all know, foreclosures are spiking again in Massachusetts. The hardest hit city and the hardest hit county is Worcester. And the Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (WAFT) has hit major milestones in its organizing on the ground. In response, the … Continue reading
URGENT: Call NOW Through Sunday Night About Bill #H4553
House Bill 4553, sponsored by Rep. Tosado, is at risk of being shut down before it leaves the Legislature’s Housing Committee. We need you to take action NOW to keep the bill moving! First, call State Rep. Kevin Honan, House … Continue reading
Action Alert: Call-In Days on July 27-28
The legislative session is nearing a close, and MAAPL and its allies have been working hard to show the leadership in the Legislature that they need to address the foreclosure crisis before the end of this session. Thanks to the … Continue reading
Action Alert: State Rep. Call-In Day Weds. 7/6/2016
It’s crunch time for the rights of Massachusetts residents—and our state economy! Foreclosures, which destroy lives (this crisis has taught us WHY the Constitution protects equally: “life, liberty and property”), are skyrocketing again—more than twice what they were a year … Continue reading
Action Alert: Call-In Days for MAAPL Bills on May 11 and 12
We have some bills to get passed this Spring! MAAPL needs your help to get these important anti-foreclosure bills out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. CALL your state Senator & Representative this Wednesday or Thursday, May … Continue reading
MAAPL Announces Attorneys’ Conference on Saturday, February 27
At the request of Massachusetts practitioners, MAAPL is organizing a foreclosure defense lawyers’ conference on Saturday, February 27th from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. Law students are welcome to attend. The conference will be held at the Charles Hamilton Houston … Continue reading
Tonight! “Black Brown Wealth Matters” at West Medford Community Center
On Monday, February 22, 2016, MAAPL Coordinator Grace Ross and Bring Our Wealth Home Co-Organizer Zakiya Alake are presenting a program on Black Brown Wealth Matters: The Impact of the Foreclosure Crisis on Communities of Color. This program is presented … Continue reading