Advantages in Membership:

• Charter membership in the Mass Rental Housing Association. There are 22 such charter memberships across the state.

• Access to more effective eviction methods, quick answers to unsolved problems, tax abatement assistance.

• Unity of a powerful voice in the community and across the Commonwealth, a voice that can affect change.

Activities for Members:

• Educational Seminars on lead paint, evictions, collections, water conservation.

• Luncheon and dinner meetings with featured speakers such as the governing Mayor, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank, and the Southeast Housing Circuits Judges.

• Monthly meetings with guest speakers such as local Senators, the presiding New Bedford Police Chief, and Director of the Office of Better Neighborhoods, Patrick Sullivan.

• Political Action on Sewer and Water Rates, Rent Control, State Health Code Issues.