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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
Tag Archives: Hearing
Homeowners Testify: Justice for us could bail out the state!
April 15, 2025, Massachusetts State House, Room A1, Boston, MA – Homeowners dominated the testimony for a breakthrough piece of legislation at a hearing of the state legislature’s Financial Services Committee. 20 years into the historic foreclosure crisis, homeowners spoke … Continue reading
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
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
Action Alert: Join MAAPL on 5/9/23 for a Press Conference and Hearings on Bills to Protect Massachusetts Homeowners
Please join MAAPL on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 for a press conference and Judiciary Committee hearing on four important bills protecting Massachusetts homeowners. Download the Press Advisory here ( PDF ) PRESS CONFERENCE: Twenty years into the harm from the … Continue reading
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
Update: MA State Court Deadlines Postponed Until July 1
MAAPL Coordinator Grace Ross has issued an update to our previous post on Massachusetts state court cases being postponed. Court case deadlines have been postponed for another month until July 1, 2020 for all non-emergency or lower-priority matters. Today, May … Continue reading
Action Alert: Another MAAPL Bill Gets a Hearing on 7/23/19
Join MAAPL supporters at the State House for a Hearing on An Act Relative to the Tax Relief of Mortgage Debt (H.2550/S.1719) this Tuesday, July 23rd! Pre-Hearing Lobby Session: 11:00 am Meet Dana Rebeiro, MAAPL Legislation Organizer, between 10:00 and … Continue reading
MAAPL Call-In Days on July 15-17
Your voice gets results! Call both your State Representative and Senator TODAY, and ask them to tell the Judiciary Committee that they support MAAPL’s Bills. Call Monday-Wednesday, July 15-17 Support these Bills: S964/H3300: An Act to Establish Foreclosure Review Division of the … Continue reading
Another Worcester Area Homeowner Breaks: Appeals Oral Argument 7/8/19
The case of Kelly Johnson and Patricia O’Dell from Worcester could be a breakthrough. The Appeals Court Full Panel has this case as a referral from a Single Justice of the Appeals of a Worcester (Central) Housing Court eviction case … Continue reading
Breaking News: SJC to Hear Homeowner Pleas to Stop Worcester Housing Court Injustice
Note: This hearing will be livestreamed at https://www.suffolk.edu/sjc/ Please join us in viewing this historic moment. On 12/6/2018, Homeowners/Tenants Argue at Supreme Judicial Court for End to Injustice and Bullying by Worcester Housing Court in Eviction Cases After Illegal Forelcosure … Continue reading