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Tenant Organizing
and Advocacy Groups
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| Anti-Displacement
Project |
| Organizes
low-income tenants in Western Massachusetts |
57
School St
Springfield, MA 01105-1331
Phone: 413-739-7233
Fax: 413-746-8862
Email: adp@javanet.com
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| Central
MA Housing Alliance |
| Focuses
on landlord/tenant counciling and homelessness prevention
(HAP). Serves as a donations clearing house for furniture,
and elder home repair and maintenance. If you have a DTA referral,
the alliance will aid with a housing search. Usually helps
people within Worcester, but make exceptions. |
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7-11
Belleview
Worcester, 01609
Phone: 508-791-7265
Email: cmha.org@verizon.net
Internet:
cmhaonline.org
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| City
Life / Vida Urbana |
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PO
Box 117
Jamaica Plain MA 02130
Phone: 617-524-3541
Fax: 617-524-3555
Email: jleyton@clvu.org
Internet: www.clvu.org |
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| Eviction
Free Zone |
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A high-powered tenant voice in Cambridge |
| Phone:
617-354-1300 |
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| Legal
Services for Cape Cod and Islands |
| Serves
the legal needs of low-income and elderly residents of Cape
Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and eastern Plymouth County.
The LSCCI Housing Unit helps clients facing lockouts, evictions,
discrimination, termination from public housing programs,
utility shutoffs, and poor housing conditions. |
460
West Main Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
Phone: Hyannis: 800-742-4107
Plymouth: 800-585-4933
Email: lscci@lscci.org
Internet:
http://www.lscci.org
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| Massachusetts
Alliance of HUD Tenants |
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Organizes tenants in project-based Section 8 housing in Eastern
Massachusetts |
353
Columbus Ave
Boston, MA 02116-6005
Phone: 617-267-2949
Fax: 617-267-4769
Email: naht@erols.com
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| Tri-City
Community Action Program (Tri-CAP) |
| Representation
for low-income families in everything from housing authority
matters to full legal representation (3 attorneys in-house,
one paralegal). Serves Malden, Medford and Everette, but will
take Melrose and Wakefield. Also has a Homeless Unit and Housing
unit, which helps with finding a new apartment (or shelter). |
110
Pleasant street 2nd floor
Malden, MA 02148
Email: John Carey (jcare@tri-cap.org)
Internet: www.tri-cap.org |
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Community
Development Corporations (CDCs)
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| Allston-Brighton
CDC |
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15
North Beacon St.
Allston MA 02134
Phone: 617-787-3874 |
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| Asian
Community Development Corporation |
| A
Community Development Corporation (CDC) is a not-for-profit
organization made up of community residents, businesses and
other interested individuals who take on projects to improve
economic and housing conditions in the community. The Asian
Community Development Corporation (ACDC), a community-based
organization, established in 1987, is committed to high standards
of performance and integrity in serving the Asian American
community of Greater Boston, with an emphasis on preserving
and revitalizing Boston's Chinatown. The Corporation develops
physical community assets, including affordable housing for
rental and ownership; promotes economic development; fosters
leadership development; builds capacity within the community;
and advocates on behalf of the community. |
888
Washington St., Suite 102
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-482-2380
Internet: www.asiancdc.org |
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| Codman
Square Community Development Corp. |
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Serving the Dorchester community |
| Phone:
617-825-4224 |
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| Dudley
Street Neighborhood Initiative |
| The
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is an innovative
resident-led planning and organizing community nonprofit dedicated
to rebuilding the Dudley neighborhood of Boston as a vibrant
Urban Village. DSNI has over 3,000 members, including neighborhood
residents (from youth to elders), businesses, nonprofit agencies
and religious institutions. It is governed by a 29-member
Board of Directors elected by the community. Reflecting its
multicultural membership (primarily African American, Latino,
Cape Verdean and White), DSNI conducts business in three languages:
English, Spanish and Cape Verdean Creole. |
504
Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Phone: 617-442-9670
Fax: 617-427-8047
Internet: www.dsni.org |
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| Fenway
Community Development Corp |
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73
Hemenway St Basement
Boston MA 02115
Phone: 617-267-4637 |
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| Hyde
Square Task Force |
| The
mission of the Hyde Square Task Force is to create a safe,
clean, and friendly neighborhood that places its priority
on young people. |
PO
Box 1871
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone : 617-524-8303
Fax: 617-524-2427
Email : programs@hydesquare.org
Internet: www.hydesquare.org |
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| Nuestra
Comunidad Development Corporation |
| HECM
Counseling, Default/Foreclosure Counseling, Rental Counseling,
and Prepurchase Counseling |
391
Dudley St
Roxbury MA 02119
Phone: 617-427-3599 |
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| Twin
Cities CDC |
195
Kimball Street
Fitchburg, MA 01420
Phone: 978-342-9561, ext. 20 (Meredith Levy) |
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