Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending

URGENT! We need you to call your legislators to support our 3 Legislative Bills and encourage your organization to join MAAPL! SAVE JUNE 18th for our next lobby day! We will start at 10:30 at the state house. More on the legislation.

Who We Are

The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending is a newly formed coalition of over 30 community organizations, housing counseling agencies, legal services groups and others who have come together to work on the sub-prime foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts. The Alliance will focus its work on the following areas:

• Legislative initiatives, including, judicial foreclosure; just cause eviction post-foreclosure; a foreclosure moratorium; and other pre and post foreclosure protections for tenants and homeowners.
• Organizing to prevent eviction of tenants and resident homeowners that are paying their rents in foreclosed properties.
• Providing education to homeowners and tenants regarding their rights, as well as educating the general public education regarding the predatory lending and discriminatory practices of lenders and financial institutions.
• Working to ensure that foreclosed properties can be acquired as affordable housing by non-profits and other entities.

The Alliance will seek to share information among, and coordinate the activities of its members organizations, and where possible speak with a united voice on behalf of victims of the foreclosure crisis and against predatory lending practices.

How To Contact Us

You can contact MAAPL by:

• Phone: 508-630-1686
• E-mail: maaplinfo@yahoo.com
• Fax: 508-630-1686

Please help us by joining MAAPL.

3 Legislative Bills To Stem The Foreclosure Crisis

We are working on 3 Legislative Bills before the Massachusetts General Court to stem the Foreclosure Crisis. We need your help!

An Act Requiring Just Cause for Eviction in Foreclosed Properties

Senate Bill 2664/House Bill 4734
Lead Sponsor: Senator Wilkerson
Lead sponsor: Representative Malia
All Legislative Supporters
Bill Text: PDF & HTML

An Act Relative To A Temporary Moratorium On Foreclosures

Senate Bill 2663/House Bill 4733
Lead Sponsor: Senator Wilkerson
Lead sponsor: Representative Lantigua
All Legislative Supporters
Bill Text: PDF & HTML

An Act To Require Judicial Foreclosures

Senate Bill 2662/House Bill 4735
Lead Sponsor: Senator Wilkerson
Lead sponsor: Representative Smizik
All Legislative Supporters
Bill Text: PDF & HTML

Urge Your Legislators to Support These Bills

We need your help! Please contact your legislators and urge them to co-sponsor the legislation listed above. Below is information on finding out who your legislators are so that you can urge them to support the bills listed above.

• Who are my legislators? - Follow the link to the left, fill out the form with your address, and look for the names of your District Representatives for Senate in General Court and House in General Court.
• Postcards to mail your legislators
• Legislation Fact Sheet
• Massachusetts v. Fremont Investment & Loan - Preliminary Injunction Extracts

Outreach Materials

• Information For Tenants In Foreclosed Buildings - English & Espanol (PDF)
• Information For Former Home-Owners - English (PDF)

Municipal Policies & Legislation

• SAVE Our Neighborhoods (Worcester)

Media Coverage

Please check back on this item. We will be updating this in the near future.

Background & Reports

• National Low Income Housing Coalition: Foreclosure in Massachusetts: Properties, Units, and Tenure
• CHAPA Briefing Paper: Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis: State and Federal Initiatives in Massachusetts
• Massachusetts v. Fremont Investment & Loan - Preliminary Injunction Extracts - Full
• United for a Fair Economy study: State of the Dream 2008
• Statewide map & top 20 hardest hit communities (July 2007)
• ACORN reports: Home Insecurity: Foreclosures in Suffolk County Neighborhoods
• Worcester map of foreclosures and petitions (July 2007)
• ForeclosuresMass 2003-2008 Massachusetts Foreclosures Report