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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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Author Archives: MAAPL
Press Conference: Housing Court Refuses SJC Decision
Please join the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) and homeowners fighting foreclosure before the Massachusetts Housing Court for a Press Conference on Wednesday, April 23rd at 12:30 pm. The Press Conference will take place in person in front of … Continue reading
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 Conference: MA Housing Courts Deny Due Process
Press Conference: MA Housing Courts Suspend All Due Process Rules for Evictions – and Their Actions Really Mean the Stripping of All Rights The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL), with its local Worcester affiliate, announced on January 6, 2025 … Continue reading
Press Conference: Homeowners Expose MA Courts’ Suspension of Due Process Rules
On Wednesday, December 11th, 2024, the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) held a press conference to release an extensive report enumerating over 46 areas of violations of rights and the history of the devolution over time of the enforcement … Continue reading
Press Release: Homeowners and Advocates Reveal Evidence of Fraudulent Foreclosure Deeds
Press Release: Homeowners/homeowner advocates to reveal system-wide practice of major industry player in publicly verifiable invalid, alleged foreclosures by sale amounting to 10s of thousands of lost Massachusetts homes in last 20 years On September 5, 2024, in front of … Continue reading
Join Homeowners Across MA to Fight Foreclosure in the Courts—and Win!
Facing Foreclosure? Been Foreclosed? We have PROOF that these are illegal! Join with us now for justice reversing the illegal foreclosures or winning full compensation. Mass. residents like you are finally winning in our courts. Take action—with SO MANY of … Continue reading
Press Conference, 5/6/24: Study Reveals Illegal Home Mortgage Scam Pattern
On May 6, 2024, the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) convened a press conference and release of a study that reveals a scam affecting homeowners across Massachusetts who are facing foreclosure or have been foreclosed on. The event took … Continue reading
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