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Advocates press Judiciary Committee to codify access-to-counsel, strengthen eviction and foreclosure processes and protect people experiencing homelessness
Summary
Legal-aid groups, tenant organizers and people with lived experience urged the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to support several housing-stability measures: a statewide right-to-counsel framework (H.1952), codifying two-tier summary-process protections so defaults do not enter at initial eviction events (S.1184/H.1895), foreclosure-mediation proposals, and S.1120, a Bill of Rights for people experiencing homelessness.
Legal-aid groups, tenant organizers and people with lived experience urged the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to support several housing-stability measures: a statewide right-to-counsel framework (H.1952), codifying two-tier summary-process protections so defaults do not enter at initial eviction events (S.1184/H.1895), foreclosure-mediation proposals, and S.1120, a "Bill of Rights" for people experiencing homelessness modeled on Rhode Island's law.
Annette Duke of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute said the FY25 budget funded an Access to Counsel pilot and subsequent FY26 funding removed the word "pilot," but the program lacks a statutory framework that…
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