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.

Growing List of Supporters for a Right to Counsel in Massachusetts

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  • ​Action for Boston Community Development
  • Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness
  • AIDS Action/Fenway Health
  • Alliance of Cambridge Tenants 
  • Allston/Brighton Community Development Corporation
  • Allston Brighton Health Collaborative​
  • ​Amherst Family Health Center
  • Amherst Municipal Affordable Housing Trust
  • Amherst Town Council (Resolution)
  • Arise for Social Justice
  • 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 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 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 Housing Joint Tenant Council
  • 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
  • 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
  • ​Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School
  • Lexington Housing Partnership Board​
  • LivableStreets
  • Local Initiatives Support Corporation - Boston
  • Lynn Housing Authority & Neighborhood Development
  • Lynn United for Change
  • ​Maloney Properties, 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 Communities Action Network (MCAN)
  • Mass Fair Housing Center
  • Mass General Brigham
  • 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
  • Mayor Marty Walsh, Boston
  • Medical-Legal Partnership|Boston​
  • Metro Housing|Boston​
  • Metropolitan Area Planning Council
  • Metropolitan Mayors Coalition 
  • ​MetroWest Legal Services
  • ​​National Assoc of Social Workers, Mass. Chapter
  • National Lawyers Guild, Mass. Chapter
  • ​Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
  • NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
  • 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
  • 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
  • Senior Residents Council
  • ServiceNet
  • Solidarity Lowell
  • 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
  • ​Way Finders
  • Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness
  • WATCH Community Development Corporation
  • WinnCompanies
  • Womanshelter/ Compañeras
  • Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
  • Worcester County Food Bank
  • Y2Y Network
  • 123 Up And Adam, Inc. ​​

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