Mass Union is thrilled to be partnering with the Brockton Rox, a a professional independent baseball team based in Brockton!
Saturday, August 8 will be Public Housing Night at the Rox game. Tenants, friends, families, and kids are all encouraged to attend. Tickets cost $22.10 per person and include a Rox hat, and a portion of the ticket price will be donated to Mass Union. It promises to be a great time and benefits a great cause. Win-win!
Join Mass Union, Legal Aid, and trainer Todd Fry for a two-part webinar series about negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with your Local Housing Authority.
Public housing tenant organizations in Massachusetts have a right to organize, be heard, and participate in matters affecting tenants. These rights can be made much stronger if a tenant organization sits down with housing authority staff and negotiates an agreement called a Memorandum of Understanding (or MOU) or a Memorandum of Agreement (or MOA).
MOUs can be powerful tools for tenant groups. They can open up better communications between tenants and housing authorities. They can provide access to resources to help strengthen tenant organizations. And, most importantly, they can provide tenant groups with a place at the table to work with the housing authority on issues of concern.
For more information, checkout the updated Memorandum of Understanding Know Your Rights Booklet!
Session 1 took place on June 16 and featured two legal experts — Annette Duke from Mass Law Reform Institute, and Susan Hegel from Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services, as well as Rey Santana, President of the Mystic Tenants Association. Annette, Susan and Rey explained what an MOU usually covers, your rights to negotiate, what recourse you have if a housing authority refuses to negotiate, and highlights from a sample MOU.
Now that you know the regulations about what your MOU can cover, learn ways to negotiate a strong agreement with your LHA. In an interactive style, we will walk through strategies, skills, and some practical tips to help you achieve the MOU that tenants in your community want.
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Thank you to our Host Committee: Marc Agramonte, Pam Bender, Kathy Brown, Sarah Byrnes, Annette Duke, Professor Eloise Lawrence, Steve Meacham, Zafiro Patiño, Renee Spencer, Danny Timpona, and Yolanda Torres.
April 16, 2026, 9:30am – 3:00pm
At the Massachusetts State House
Breakfast, Lunch, T-Shirts, and Spanish Interpretation Provided
Please join us for our third annual Public Housing Day at the State House – a day of legislator meetings, civic engagement, and celebration! Make your voice heard to support fair funding for public housing, additional Resident Services Coordinators for our communities, Access to Counsel for tenants facing eviction, and protection for tenants undergoing redevelopment. Click here to read more about our State Budget requests (PDF). Registration is FREE for public housing tenants! If you are not a tenant and would like to attend, please email info@massunion.org.
Unsure about speaking with your legislators? Have questions about Public Housing Day? Join us on April 14 for our free online Storytelling and Public Speaking Webinar! Click here to learn more and sign up.
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