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MAAPL is a coalition of local and state-wide groups working to fight the foreclosure crisis and support Massachusetts homeowners, tenants, and neighborhoods.

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Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024 - Join MAAPL homeowner foreclosure-fighters across MA at press conferences calling on the MA Supreme Judicial Court to break its 47 year silence on the constitutional provisions and laws against predatory lending. https://t.co/nANdFuSFjH

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EMERGENCY ACTION: Stop Unlicensed Warehouse/Mover from Selling Alton King’s Stuff!
7/1/23 8:30 am, 460 Race St., Holyoke, MA https://t.co/FzsNZoPbgj

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TOMORROW, June 20, 2023: Join MAAPL on Beacon Hill for a Press Conference and Juneteenth Rally!
https://t.co/SnPkLrljME

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Happy Election Day! https://t.co/9D4GpXrZeJ

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Recent news coverage of the wrongful eviction of Alton King in the Western MA media - https://t.co/GXhDi4wFPz

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On Thursday, October 20, 2022, the Mass Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) released a statement to the media regarding the wrongful eviction case of Alton King, a Black senior with a disability. Read more at https://t.co/DDkcJvLzxt

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On 8/25/22, the New England Area Conference (NEAC) of the NAACP issued a press release regarding its filing of an amicus brief in the Alton King Supreme Judicial Court case.
Read all about it at https://t.co/DBhClxONai

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2022 Endorsement Survey is live! https://t.co/DBXKnWG0pn

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Action Alert: MAAPL Call-In Day to Extend the National Eviction Moratorium!
Your voice gets results! Call NOW, and keep calling through June 25th!

Call the CDC — and your Congressperson & US Senators, and ask them to extend the CDC’s Eviction Moratorium. https://t.co/REy57hXRzx

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Friends, please vote now in the @BostonGlobe poll on extending the moratorium on evictions & foreclosures for another year! We need the moratorium until the pandemic danger has passed! Vote Now: https://t.co/iBT1mKF1Wr

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Foreclosures and Evictions have NOT stopped nationally… but there’s good news for those with FHA mortgages! (and maybe Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac… ) https://t.co/TpylQJ733G

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Urgent: Call Today to Halt Evictions in MA During Coronavirus Crisis! Call your MA legislator TODAY to support HD.4935 and halt foreclosures during the COVID-19 crisis. https://t.co/8juMUWFCeu

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It's Happening Tomorrow, 7/23: Hearing on MAAPL's bill, "An Act Relative to the Tax Relief of Mortgage Debt"!

Where: Room B2
When:
• Pre-Hearing Lobby Session at 11:00 am (arrive between 10 and 10:30)
• Hearing at 1:00 pm

Please join us! More info - https://t.co/cmE7qqd90q

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10 years past 9/29/08 crash, real unemployment is steady at historic level. Official US rate does not "count" students, returning workers, long term unemployed, workers in family business. Real rate? 23% unemployment!

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No/low employment rebound in zip codes hardest hit by foreclosures predictable, as 70% of businesses started off the mortgage of the founder. No equity to start business = no small businesses that are primary means of new jobs!

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As of 2015, the zip codes hardest hit were not recovering: high % of underwater homes, still significant foreclosure rates and unemployment rates continuing high—all correlated with high % of people of color. (Haas Institute)

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10 years after the crash, people still think the economic downturn drove foreclosures. Instead, the last 3 high unemployment periods/recessions saw NO increase in foreclosures. Bad mortgage foreclosures drive unemployment.

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By 9/29/08 crash, we knew women had been disparately targeted for subprime mortgages. We did not realize lenders illegally marked mortgagors as 'single woman' in the mortgage. And they still do!

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When market crashed, predatory lending/foreclosures just then became truly visible across all communities; in 2010, we found out that in 2005-09 Black wealth lost 54%, Latino 66%