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Halt foreclosures & evictions during the COVID-19 Emergency.

Image Description: MAAPL CALL-IN NOW: TODAY!! Halt foreclosures & evictions during the COVID-19 Emergency

Your voice gets results! Call your state Representative & Senator. 

  • Ask each to support HD.4935 &

  • Halt foreclosures & evictions during the COVID-19 Emergency.

Step 1: Find your Representatives

 If you don’t know who your state representative and senator are, go to WhereDoIVotema.com. Type in your address. It will tell you whom your elected officials are and their phone numbers.

Step 2: What do I say? 

Leave a message if no one answers the phone.

 Sample Script

“Hello, my name is                    . I live in name of your town and my zip code is .

Please tell the Senate President & Speaker of the House to immediately pass Rep. Honan & Rep. Connolly’s Bill, HD4935, and halt foreclosures & evictions during this COVID-19 emergency. 

In order to be safe and practice social distancing—people need a home!

The foreclosure crisis is still very much with us. Homeowners are fighting 100s of foreclosure auctions throughout the Commonwealth every month. Massachusetts needs this legal protection!

Please, as my Representative/Senator, will you ask the Senate President and Speaker of the House to pass HD4935 now?

Thank you.”

Step 3: Let MAAPL Know

When you have finished the call, e-mail Grace Ross, MAAPL coordinator. Tell her who your Representative/Senator is: maaplinfo@yahoo.com

MAAPL has sent in an amendment to this legislation to add wording to ensure that homeowners get contacted.

More Info: The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) 

maaplinfo@yahoo.com

508-630-1686