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The Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending 

Mission

MAAPL was founded in 2008 to stop and reverse the impacts of the predatory lending foreclosure crisis in Massachusets through grassroots organizing, homeowner/tenant education, legal strategies and policy initiatives at all levels. We organize homeowners & tenants pre- and post-foreclosure, their allies and those collaterally impacted.

Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending has received a Community Organizing Grant from the Peace Development Fund and all of the money raised from this fundraiser will be added to that grant to help support their organizing in 2021.  Please consider making a contribution today to support them and read more about their work below.

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MAAPL seeks staff to seed new South Essex organizing. 

Initially reaching homeowners to work together filing evidence in the Public Registry of key mortgaging/foreclosure violations, creating immediate home protection. The standard legal filings are homeowner-member developed templates. Volunteer law students and community activists assist homeowners to complete. This creates widespread public records of violations, patterns of violations for targeted groups of purported loans and mortgagors (homeowners).

After the outreach phase, at least 8 organized “Know Your Rights” clinics engaging 160 households directly at the Registry of Deeds or a community location, each focused on violations created in the historic pattern of a particular subset of (not legally viable) loans. Clinics will be used to form committed homeowner teams. 

In a year, organizer and outreach through the South Essex Registry will touch 30,000 households with clear-cut mortgage violations, demonstrating illegalities probably rendering the mortgages unenforceable. At least 200 homeowner affidavits will get recorded, at least 15 media hits, at least 3 mutual aid teams, each connected to at least one of six pattern violations, which we will have done unique outreach and engagement. The Register, himself, will have advocated in possibly all 30,000 example violations

Website: http://maapl.info/

Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending is a participant in Grassroots Funding Week, a week-long crowdfunding campaign that supports several social justice organizations from across the country. 

Click on the links below to read about other organizations participating in Grassroots Funding Week. 

Monday: We Want Justice, Not More Jails! 

Change Comes Now - Lake Park, Florida 

Decarcerate, Inc - Little Rock, Arkansas

Human Rights Coalition - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tuesday: Housing is a Human Right 

Springfield No One Leaves - Springfield, Massachusetts 

Fund for Empowerment - Phoenix, Arizona 

Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending - Worcester, Massachusetts 

Wednesday: Healing Our Communities and Our Land  

Communities for Clean Water - Taos, New Mexico 

Whiteswan Environmental - Bellingham, Washington 

Coal River Mountain Watch - Naoma, West Virginia 

Thursday: Intersectionality is Our Power 

NNLB United - New York, New York 

Who Speaks for Me - Washington, D.C.

Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan - Detroit, Michigan 

Friday: Economic Justice For All  

Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights - Olympia, Washington

Haymarket Pole Collective - Portland, Oregon 

For more information, visit: www.peacedevelopmentfund.org 

The Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.