A broad coalition of municipal leaders, housing advocates, community organizations, health care and public health institutions, faith-based organizations, and property management companies and owners have joined together to support a right to counsel in Massachusetts for low income people facing eviction.

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Growing List of Supporters for a Right to Counsel in Massachusetts

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• ​Action for Boston Community Development
• Action, Inc.
• Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness
• AIDS Action/Fenway Health
• Alliance of Cambridge Tenants 
• Allston/Brighton Community Development Corporation
• Allston Brighton Health Collaborative​
• American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
• ​Amherst Family Health Center
• Amherst Municipal Affordable Housing Trust
• Amherst Town Council (Resolution)
• Arise for Social Justice
• Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence 
• Beacon Communities
• Beacon Residential Management​
• Berkshire County Regional Housing Authority
• BEST Hospitality Training
• Beth Israel Lahey Health
• Black Economic Justice Institute
• Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
• Boston Bar Association
• Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
• Boston Housing Authority
• ​Boston Medical Center
• Boston Public Health Commission 
• Boston Teachers Union 
• Boston Tenant Coalition
• Brockton Neighborhood Health Center
• Brockton Interfaith Community​
• Cambridge Health Alliance
• Casa Myrna 
• Cathedral Church of St. Paul 
• Catholic Charities Worcester County
• Center for Human Development​
• Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance
• Charter Street Tenant Association
• Chelsea Collaborative
• ​Chelsea Police Department​
• Chelsea Public School Committee Chair, Kelly Garcia
• Children's HealthWatch
• Children's Services of Roxbury
• Chinese Progressive Association
• Citizens' Housing and Planning Association 
• City Life/Vida Urbana
• City Mission Boston​
• ​City of Boston
• City of Boston Veterans' Services
• ​​City of Cambridge (City Council Resolution)
• City Northampton (City Council Resolution)
• City of Springfield (City Council Resolution)
• City Manager of Cambridge, Louis A. DePasquale
• City Manager of Chelsea, Tom G. Ambrosino
• Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
• Community Action Agency of Somerville
• Community Action Pioneer Valley
• Community Care Cooperative
• Community Health Network for North Central Mass
• Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester
• Cooley Dickinson Health Care, Northampton
• Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals
• Craig's Doors - A Home Association
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• De Novo Center for Justice and Healing
• DOVE (Domestic Violence Ended)
• East Boston Social Centers
• Easthampton Affordable and Fair Housing Partnership
• Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center
• Eliot Community Human Services
• Elizabeth Freeman Center
• Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
• ​Fall River Confronting Discrimination Committee
• Fall River Housing Joint Tenant Council
• Family Promise Metrowest
• FamilyAid Boston
• Father Bill's & MainSpring
• Fenway Community Development Corporation
• Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
• Framingham Public Health Department
• Greater Boston Labor Council
• Greater Boston Legal Services
• Greater Lawrence Community Action Council
• Grow A Strong Family 
• HarborCOV: Communities Overcoming Violence
• Harvard Legal Aid Bureau​​
• ​Heading Home
• Health Care For All
• ​Health Resources in Action
• Heisler, Feldman & McCormick​
• Holland & Knight LLP​
• HomeStart 
• Homes for Families
• ​Housing Families​
• Immigrant Service Providers Group/Health​
• Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion
• Institute for Community Health
• ​Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford
• Jane Doe, Inc.
• Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
• Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
• Jewish Family & Children's Service 
• JP Progressives
• Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts
• La Comunidad
• Latinos Unidos En Massachusetts
• Law Office of Laura M. Unflat​​
• Lawyers Clearinghouse
• ​Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston
• Lawrence Community Works​
• League of Women Voters Massachusetts
• ​Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School
• LEO, Inc.
• Lexington Housing Partnership Board​
• LivableStreets
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation - Boston
• Lynn Community Health Center
• Lynn Housing Authority & Neighborhood Development
• Lynn United for Change
• ​Maloney Properties, Inc.
• Mandela Residents Cooperative Association, Inc.
  
• Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
• Mass Alliance of Portuguese Speakers
• Mass Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
• Mass Association of Community Development Corporation
• Mass Association of Community Health Workers 
• Mass Bar Association
• ​Mass Communities Action Network (MCAN)
• Mass Fair Housing Center
• Mass General Brigham
• Mass LGBTQ Bar Association​
• Mass Senior Action Council 
• Mass Coalition for the Homeless
• Mass General Hospital Center for Community Health Improvement
• Mass Housing and Shelter Alliance, Inc.
• Mass Law Reform Institute
• Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
• ​Mass Public Health Association
• ​Mass Smart Growth Alliance
• Mass Teachers Association
• ​Mass Union of Public Housing Tenants
• Mayor Gary Christenson, Malden
• Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Somerville
• Mayor Carlo DeMaria, Everett
• Mayor Kim Driscoll, Salem
• Mayor Paul Heroux, Attleboro
• Mayor Thomas McGee, Lynn
• Mayor Alex Morse, Holyoke
• Mayor David Narkewicz, Northampton
• Mayor Joseph M. Petty, Worcester
• Mayor Dan Rivera, Lawrence
• Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, Cambridge
• Mayor Yvonne M. Spicer, Framingham
• Mayor Robert F. Sullivan, Brockton
• Mayor Linda M. Tyer, Pittsfield​
• Medical-Legal Partnership|Boston​
• Metro Housing|Boston​
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council
• Metropolitan Mayors Coalition 
• ​MetroWest Legal Services
• NAACP New Bedford Branch
• ​​National Association of Social Workers, Mass. Chapter
• National Lawyers Guild, Mass. Chapter
• ​Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
• NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
• New Bedford Community Health Center
• Northampton Human Rights Commission
• Northampton Survival Center
• Northeast Justice Center
• NuLawLabs at Northeastern University School of Law
• Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation
• One Family
• Open Sky, Worcester
• Our Father's House
• ​Pioneer Valley Workers Center
• Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc.
• Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts
• Project Hope 
• Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts
• Regional Housing Network of Massachusetts
• Residents Council for the Senior & Disabled Tenants of Quincy Housing Authority​
• Right to the City Boston
• Rosie's Place
• Roxbury Community College
  
• Senior Residents Council
• ServiceNet
• Solidarity Lowell
• Somerville Dept. of Veterans' Services Director, Ted Louis Jacques
• Somerville Homeless Coalition
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul Boston
• Solidarity Lowell​
• South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc. 
• Springfield Dementia Friendly Coalition ​
• Springfield No One Leaves
• Springfield Partners for Community Action, Inc.
• St. Francis House
• Stop Bullying Coalition
• Temple Sinai of Sharon ​​
• ​Tenant Advocacy Project at Harvard Law School
• The Neighborhood Developers
• The Second Step
• Three Pyramids​
• Town Administrator of Brookline, Mel Kleckner 
• Town Manager of Amherst, Paul Bockelman
• Town Manager of Arlington, Adam W. Chapdelaine
• Town Manager of Danvers, Steve Bartha
• Town Manager of Randolph, Brian Howard
• Town Manager of Winthrop, Austin Faison
• Trinity Financial
• Urban Edge ​
• UNITE HERE Local 26
• United Food and Commercial Union Local 1445
• United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
• Veterans Legal Services
• ​​Volunteers of America
• ​Way Finders
• Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness
• WATCH Community Development Corporation
• WinnCompanies
• Womanshelter/ Compañeras
• ​Women's Bar Association
• Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
• Worcester County Food Bank
• Y2Y Network
• YWCA Cambridge
• 123 Up And Adam, Inc. ​​