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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!
Allied Organizations
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Press Release: A Win! MA Homeowners Continue to Push for Equal Access to Our Courts
On Friday, April 26, 2024, the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) released a statement to the media announcing the winning of an appeal by Karen Merritt, a pro se litigant seeking equal access to the court system in her … Continue reading
Press Release: Homeowners Excited to Show SJC Irrefutable Evidence of their Rights to Access our Courts
On Tuesday, February 27, 2024, homeowners Karen Merritt of Rehoboth and Jay Lively of Falmouth issued a press release, stating, “We are very excited to provide to our top court in Massachusetts the legal history irrefutably showing the Court that … Continue reading
Press Advisory: 1/16/24 – Homeowners Speak Out: Demand MA SJC Break its 47 Year Silence
Join MAAPL homeowner foreclosure-fighters across Massachusetts on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 as they hold a series of press conferences across the Commonwealth to demand that the MA Supreme Judicial Court break its silence on the constitutional provisions and laws that … Continue reading
EMERGENCY ACTION: Stop Unlicensed Warehouse/Mover from Selling Alton’s Stuff!
Calling All Foreclosure-Fighters!!! They are trying to make an example of Alton King again. The statute requires that a warehouse cannot auction your possessions for at least 6 months after they take them at a supposed eviction. It has been … Continue reading
MA Moratorium Lifts: A Message from MAAPL
Friends, We continue to fight for the Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures and you should, too. In the meantime, do not panic. Remember: You cannot be evicted without a decision against you from a judge and the court has to … Continue reading
Action Alert: Vote in Boston Globe Poll to Extend the Moratorium!
An article in today’s Boston Globe (September 12, 2020) asks readers an important question: Should Massachusetts extend its eviction moratorium for another year? The article features pro and con opinion pieces from Rep. Mike Connolly, co-lead sponsor of the bill … Continue reading
Breaking News: CDC Issues Federal Eviction Moratorium for Renters Through the End of 2020
On September 1, 2020, the CDC issued a federal eviction moratorium through Dec. 31, 2020. There are two important caveats: this moratorium only protects against evictions for non-payment of rent and NOT where a state or local moratorium already exists. … Continue reading
Urgent: Call Today to Halt Evictions in MA During Coronavirus Crisis!
MAAPL Call-In NOW!: March 16th (or as soon as you do it!) Halt Foreclosures & Evictions during COVID-19 Emergency Your voice gets results! Call your state Representative & Senator. Ask each to support HD.4935 & Halt foreclosures & evictions during … Continue reading
Action Alert: MAAPL Legislative Call-In Day This Friday, 1/31/2020!
UPDATE: Keep calling your State Legislators! Monday, Feb. 3rd is Call-In Day #2. Make another call today—Your Voice Gets Results! PLEASE RE-POST THIS MESSAGE BROADLY: EMAIL, FACEBOOK, TWITTER — when we pour calls into the State House it has real … Continue reading
Action Alert – Day of Hearings for MAAPL’s Bills on 7/16/19
It’s Time to Make Your Voice Heard!!! Testify in Support of MAAPL’s Anti-Foreclosure Bills Tuesday, July 16th Massachusetts State House, Room A1 Beacon Hill, Boston Agenda: Arrive at 10:30am, then Tell your Story to Legislators Press Conference! Hearing: 1:00pm After … Continue reading