Housing - Tenant and Homeowner Rights
Get involved
- If you are facing foreclosure or eviction, come to one of our weekly meetings.
- If you aren't facing foreclosure or eviction yourself but would like to help, please contact us to find out what you can do
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Resources
- Tenants' Rights in Massachusetts booklet (from MassLegalHelp.org)
- FDIC: Beware of Foreclosure Rescue and Loan Modification Scams
- FDIC: Tenga cuidado con los agentes de ejecuciones hipotecarias y de modificación de préstamos
Information on organizing
The City Life/Vida Urbana tenant rights organization has brought information and inspiration to several recent meetings in Lynn. Here is some more information about City Life:
- PBS TV story about City Life now available online.
- Fighting the Foreclosure Epidemic (radio story)
- Short account of City Life's work on boston.com
Selected articles from news coverage of the housing crisis
- New York Times editorial supports principal reduction
- Is it borrowers' fault?
- Details on new modification program that may reduce principal