Resources
- Boston Globe: The Mayor’s Office of Financial Empowerment is providing free help, over the phone! The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on Boston residents’ finances, and the Mayor’s Office of Financial Empowerment’s new Financial Navigators program is here to help.
- Covid Eviction Help Project: Do you need help with an eviction in Massachusetts? The COVID Eviction Legal Help Project (CELHP) was formed to expand the capacity of legal aid organizations in Massachusetts, as well as the pro bono bar, to provide urgently needed legal assistance in COVID-related eviction cases. CELHP will provide referrals, legal information, assistance and legal representation in Housing Court, and where capacity allows in District Courts and for tenants at risk of losing their subsidized housing. The goal of representation is to achieve housing stability.
- Mass.gov/Children and Youth with Special Health Needs: Emergency Care Planning for Children & Youth with Special Health Needs during COVID 19 and Beyond
- Mass.gov: COVID-19 Food Assistance
- National Alliance on Mental Illness, MA: Mental Health Resources, including Navigating a Mental Health Crisis; Peer Support; Parenting; Housing; Employment, Legal, Insurance, and much more
- Department of Mental Health DMH Multicultural Mental Health Resource Directory: This directory contains information about organizations in Massachusetts that offer linguistically and culturally appropriate mental health and related services for communities of color, LGBTQ community, immigrants, and refugees.
- MGH: Mental Health Resources for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)
- SAMSHA: Suicide Prevention Lifeline, COVID-specific tips
- SAMSHA: Disaster Distress Line (including COVID as a disaster) — a 24/7/365 multilingual hotline for crisis support
- MDPH/SAMSHA: Massachusetts Substance Use Helpline, an extensive list of substance use and recovery resources to support treatment and recovery service providers, people who may be using substances, people in recovery, and other allies as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve.
- Boston Public Library: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources
- MA 211: HelpSteps
- Project Bread: Fliers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on how to PIN P-EBT card
- MA Law Reform Institute: SNAP & rules for reporting UI in Massachusetts
- MA Immigrants & Refugees Advocacy Coalition: Resources
- Families First: Covid-19 Parenting Tips and Resources, Spanish
- Children’s Trust/one tough job: early school resources for parents
- Common Sense Open School: free and low-cost internet and devices
- MLPB: The Eviction Lab has assembled a state-level overview of COVID-19-related eviction laws, ranked by tenant-protectiveness
- MLPB: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have developed online multifamily property lookup tools to help renters learn if they are protected from evictions during the pandemic
- MLPB: The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has issued guidance urging state-subsidized housing providers to suspend non-essential evictions and temporarily suspend subsidy terminations. Additional homelessness prevention funds (RAFT) have been released as well.
- MLPB: Housing discrimination — including eviction or refusal to rent — based on national origin or race, age, gender, or the perception that one has a disability, is illegal. If discrimination occurs, one can file a complaint with the MCAD.
- MassLegalHelp:
- Evictions and foreclosures are on hold! See COVID-19 and Housing
- Your landlord cannot lock you out or shut off your utilities, See Illegal Eviction
- For other public services affected by COVID-19, see our novel coronavirus webpage.
- You have the right to an interpreter