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About MAAPL

The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) is a coalition of over 60 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. MAAPL collects and distributes timely information on the foreclosure crisis and its effects to the public and to its member groups, drafts and supports legislation that provides important protections to homeowners and tenants facing foreclosure and eviction, documents the impact of the foreclosure crisis on local communities, networks with related organizations throughout the Commonwealth, and provides tools and information to help people navigate the legal system and advocate on their own behalf more effectively when challenging a foreclosure or eviction in court

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Support MAAPL This Holiday Season!

As the giving season approaches, please remember the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL): we are situated to reverse not only the largest foreclosure crisis in U.S. history (with a massive land and wealth transfer to the uber-wealthiest) but also … Continue reading

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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

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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

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