Legal Tactics: Tenants’ Rights in Massachusetts (2025)
Legal Tactics: Tenant’s Rights in Massachusetts is the most comprehensive handbook on tenants rights in Massachusetts. Written in easy-to-understand terms, this volume focuses on private rental housing. It answers questions on tenant screenings, security deposits, rent, repairs, evictions, housing discrimination, lead poisoning, mobile homes, and tenants in foreclosed properties. Over 40 sample forms, letters, and […]
2026 SNAP Advocacy Guide
An indispensable handbook for all who need to know about the SNAP program in Massachusetts. The 2026 SNAP Advocacy Guide provides practical information about how and where to apply, who is eligible, and how to appeal a denial or termination. Organized for quick reference, the Guide takes advocates step-by-step through the financial eligibility rules, household […]
2023 Unemployment Insurance Advocacy Guide
This Guide is intended to answer questions about applications, eligibility, benefits, and appeals in the unemployment insurance (UI) process, which in Massachusetts is operated by the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA). It contains citations to relevant employment statutes, regulations, and case law as well as to policies, practical information, and exhibits useful to those navigating […]
2025 TAFDC Advocacy Guide
Using a simple question-and-answer format, this handbook guides advocates through the maze of Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC) rules and regulations that govern the requirements for eligibility, benefits, applications, and proofs. Special advocacy reminders and citations to sources provide technical and legal information about the state’s welfare programs for families.
2023 Emergency Assistance Advocacy Guide
Using a simple question-and-answer format, this Guide leads advocates and homeless families through the rules governing eligibility for Emergency Assistance — the program that provides emergency shelter and rehousing services to homeless families with children in Massachusetts. Revised in September 2018, the Guide provides contact information for the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), […]
2019 ConnectorCare Advocacy Guide
This handbook is designed for advocates and attorneys helping low- and moderate-income clients needing access to health care services who are not eligible for MassHealth, but may qualify for free or low cost health insurance through the Massachusetts Health Connector’s ConnectorCare program. The Advocacy Guide uses a question-and-answer format to help you navigate the state […]
Legal Tactics: Finding Public and Subsidized Housing (2007)
Finding Public and Subsidized Housing is the second volume in the Legal Tactics series. This handbook is designed to assist low-income residents and their advocates in understanding and navigating the universe of government-funded housing programs in Massachusetts. Topics include a description of each affordable housing program in Massachusetts, how applicants should manage the application process, […]