Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants

The Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT) helps organize tenants in privately-owned HUD-assisted multifamily housing developments in Eastern and Central Massachusetts to win repairs, improvements, affordable rents and ensure the preservation of affordable housing.

How to Join:
Voting membership is open to tenant groups of HUD assisted and/or insured multi-family housing that meet regularly and are democratic, representative, committed to permanently affordable housing and independent of non-resident owners or management agents.

If your group wants to join MAHT as a voting member, please contact the MAHT office for an application form and enclose it with a current list of your group’s board or steering committee and $25 for your membership dues (Membership includes automatic membership in the National Alliance of HUD Tenants).

Expiring Use Legislation

Across Massachusetts, more than 5,000 apartments subsidized by the federal government have lost their affordability as owners convert to market rents. 27,000 more remain at risk. There are several bills at the State House to permanently preserve these homes as affordable housing, including the Enabling Act to Save Affordable Housing (H-1284; S-772) and the Boston (H-3950), Quincy (S-770), Lowell (S-774), Salem (S-2152), and New Bedford (H-4051) Home Rule Petitions— at no cost to State or local government. We also support adoption of a Right to Purchase bill. The strongest of the bills this session is An Act to Preserve Publicly Assisted Housing (S 782), filed by Sen. Tucker, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Housing.

For more information on these bills see our Explanation of the Bills.
Read the full text of HB 1284
Read the full text of S 772