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  • Resident Leader Training Series – Spring 2025

    Register below by May 14! Wednesdays, May 21, 28, June 4, 11 11:00am – 12:30pm Via Zoom – Link provided after you register Please join us for our flagship training, the four-part Resident Leader Training Series. This series will focus the core concepts of Mass Union’s network leadership model. Whether you are a seasoned resident…

  • We’re Hiring! Organizing & Network Manager

    Applications are no longer being accepted for this position.

  • April 30 – Special Advocacy Training – i.e. Public Housing Day Prep Webinar

    Wednesday, April 30, 2pm – 3pm Via Zoom This online session will help tenants prepare for our Public Housing Day on May 7 . We’ll review our plan for the day, our state policy agenda, and talking points. This will ensure that together we can make our voices heard to support fair funding for public housing, Access…

  • April 16: LTO Business Banking Workshop in Brockton

    Wednesday, April 16, 10am – 3pm – Please arrive by 9:30 at the latest Caffrey Towers, Brockton, MA Breakfast and Lunch Provided Spanish Interpretation Provided Is your Local Tenant Organization (LTO) ready to open up a bank account, secure an EIN, and get up to date on budgeting practices that ensure compliance?  If so, we…

  • April 30: MKI Training: Sustainable Strategies for Language Access

    9:30am Duration: 6 hours  Online Description Language Access is a fundamental component of equitable community engagement. To meet the needs of underserved communities, our projects and outreach strategies must be multilingual and culturally welcoming. Language access allows people’s voices to be heard and affirms that their voice does matter. We live in a globalizing and…

  • April 16: MKI Webinar: LHA Board Stewardship and Fundamentals of Non-Profit Governance

    April 16 (Wednesday) 5 pm – 7 pm This training will focus on effective Local Housing Authority Boards and Commissions stewardship strategies, meant for and free for all members. Topics will include fundamentals of non-profit governance, building capacity, resilience, and diversity, the roles and responsibilities of board members, and conflict of interest avoidance. Register here: https://www.melkinginstitute.org/event/7591

  • March 27 MKI & EOHLC Webinar: RSC and Supportive Housing Programs

    March 27 (Thursday) 10 am – 11:30 am The Resident Service Coordinator program and the state Self-Sufficiency Program are two grants administered by the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) to support residents living in state-aided public housing. Speaker Ann-Elizabeth Young, Livable Public Housing Communities Specialist, will discuss each program’s scope, purpose, and impact…

  • Mass Union Signs Letter to Stop Elon Musk and DOGE from Gutting HUD

    As we know, HUD is the federal agency dedicated to addressing our most pressing housing, community development and homelessness challenges and serves millions of renters, homeowners, and people experiencing homelessness. Attempts by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to terminate at least half of all HUD employees, if successful, would be DISASTROUS…

  • March 28 – Reasonable Accommodations Webinar

    Date: March 28th Time: 11:00am- 12:15pm Zoom: Register below for link! The Tenant Advocacy Project—also known as TAP—is a student practice group at Harvard Law School that represents current and prospective public housing tenants and Section 8 voucher recipients in administrative hearings and other disputes with their housing authority. On March 28th, we will be joined by law…

  • March 2025 – Local Tenant Organization (LTO) Life Cycle Training

    When: March 17, 24, and 31 at 11am Where: Zoom– Register below by Wednesday, March 12 at 5pm! Are you working to start a new LTO? Or maybe your existing LTO needs to be revived? In either case, join us for the LTO Life Cycle training! This three-part training series is catered to seasoned resident…