City/County Information

This page contains Massachusetts municipal and county housing/foreclosure data, and pending or passed municipal actions and ordinances.

Note: We hope to make more of these resources available in Spanish, and to add French translations as demand for this information in French-speaking communities increases. If you can help us translate our documents, please get in touch with us through the Contact MAAPL page.

Actions and Ordinances

Submit these petitions and ordinances to your local government! Your group or organization is encouraged to insert the name of your city/town into these sample petitions and ordinances and seek to have them passed by your local city council or acting governing body. These documents are provided as Microsoft Word files (DOC) for easy customizing to reflect your location and specific situation.

Note: MAAPL periodically revises ordinance language to reflect the experiences of people who have submitted these ordinance documents in their cities and towns. Please contact MAAPL to receive the latest language and strategies for ordinance passage.

  • Municipal Foreclosure Repair Ordinance ( DOC ) and Fact Sheet ( DOC )
    Note: These two documents are password-protected. Please contact MAAPL to request access to these documents.

    This is a two part (separable) municipal ordinance; the first part of the ordinance provides a pre-foreclosure mandatory mediation program for owner-occupied properties; the second part is an ordinance that requires foreclosing lenders to maintain properties and provide a refundable $10K cash bond to cover costs.

  • Foreclosure Moratorium Petition ( DOC )
  • Judicial Foreclosure Petition ( DOC )
  • Tenant Protection Petition ( DOC )

Letters From Municipal Leaders

Municipal Data

Massachusetts city foreclosure data as of May 2008 in PDF format. PDF files require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click on any city/town name to download a data sheet.

Agawam Lowell
Athol Lynn
Attleborough Marlborough
Barnstable Marshfield
Bellingham Middleborough
Billerica New Bedford
Bourne North Attleborough
Braintree Pittsfield
Brockton Plymouth
Canton Randolph
Chelsea Revere
Chicopee Rockland
Dedham Springfield
Dracut Stoughton
Everett Taunton
Fall River Waltham
Falmouth Wareham
Fitchburg Weymouth
Framingham Whitman
Holyoke Winchendon
Leominster Yarmouth

County Data

Property sales data as of May 2008 in PDF format. PDF files require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click on any county name to download a data sheet.

Barnstable Hampshire
Berkshire Middlesex
Bristol Nantucket
Dukes Norfolk
Essex Plymouth
Franklin Suffolk
Hampden Worcester