A broad coalition of municipal leaders, housing advocates, and community groups support legislation to provide a right to counsel in Massachusetts for low income people facing eviction.

Growing List of Supporters for a Right to Counsel in Massachusetts

  • ​Action, Inc.
  • ​AIDS Action/Fenway Health
  • Alliance of Cambridge Tenants 
  • Allston/Brighton Community Development Corporation
  • ​Amherst Municipal Affordable Housing Trust
  • Amherst Town Council (Resolution)
  • Arise for Social Justice
  • Beacon Communities
  • Beacon Residential Management​
  • Berkshire County Regional Housing Authority
  • Black Economic Justice Institute
  • Boston Bar Association
  • ​Boston Tenant Coalition
  • Brockton Interfaith Community​
  • Casa Myrna 
  • Cathedral Church of St. Paul 
  • Catholic Charities Worcester County
  • Charter Street Tenant Association
  • Chelsea Collaborative
  • Chelsea City Manager, Tom G. Ambrosino
  • ​Chelsea Police Department
  • Center for Human Development​
  • 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)
  • Community Action Agency of Somerville
  • Community Action Pioneer Valley
  • Community Health Network for North Central Mass
  • Craig's Doors - A Home Association
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing
  • DOVE (Domestic Violence Ended)
  • Easthampton Affordable and Fair Housing Partnership
  • Eliot Community Human Services
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center
  • Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
  • FamilyAid Boston
  • Father Bill's & MainSpring
  • Fenway Community Development Corporation
  • Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
  • Greater Boston Legal Services
  • Greater Lawrence Community Action Council
  • Grow A Strong Family 
  • HarborCOV: Communities Overcoming Violence
  • Harvard Legal Aid Bureau​​
  • Heisler, Feldman & McCormick​
  • Holland & Knight LLP​
  • HomeStart 
  • Homes for Families
  • ​Housing Families
  • Immigrant Service Providers Group/Health​
  • Jane Doe, Inc.
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
  • Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service 
  • Justice Center of Southeast 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​
  • Local Initiatives Support Corporation - Boston
  • Lynn United for Change
  • ​Maloney Properties, Inc.
  • Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
  • 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 Senior Action Council 
  • Mass Coalition for the Homeless
  • Mass Housing and Shelter Alliance, Inc.
  • Mass Law Reform Institute
  • Mass Public Health Association
  • ​Mass Smart Growth Alliance
  • Mass Teachers Association
  • ​Mass Union of Public Housing Tenants
  • Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Somerville
  • 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
  • ​NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
  • Northampton Survival Center
  • Northeast Justice Center
  • NuLawLabs at Northeastern University School of Law
  • Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation
  • One Family
  • Our Father's House
  • ​Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts
  • Project Hope 
  • 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
  • Springfield Dementia Friendly Coalition ​
  • Springfield No One Leaves
  • Springfield Partners for Community Action, Inc. 
  • Society of St. Vincent de Paul Boston
  • Solidarity Lowell​
  • St. Francis House
  • Stop Bullying Coalition
  • Temple Sinai of Sharon ​​
  • ​Tenant Advocacy Project at Harvard Law School
  • The Neighborhood Developers
  • Three Pyramids​
  • Trinity Financial
  • Urban Edge ​
  • 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
  • 123 Up And Adam, Inc. ​

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Pass a Local Resolution Supporting RTC

Download this sample resolution and urge your City or Town Council to voice their support for Right to Counsel.