Webinar: A Fair and Equal Housing Guarantee via Surety Bonds

[Jillian Campayno]

The eviction moratorium may have made sense from a public health point of view back in March, but without any funding the same tidal wave of evictions is still coming, only later. At least a year's worth of cases will be filed the week the moratorium ends. And cumulative arrearages the last three months have been 19%, meaning potentially hundreds of millions of dollars would have to be paid to keep every renter out of court. What can be done?

This webinar will review our Fair and Equal Housing Guarantee via Surety Bonds. We will review the basic concept of a housing guarantee, and the key players needed to make it work. Landlords, renters, surety bond companies, and the Commonwealth must all work together. Then we will discuss mechanics of how landlords can get the bond, what they can or cannot do while holding a bond, and how they can get repaid. Finally, we will look at mechanisms for funding surety.

Attendees will leave with a better understanding of the talking points, prepared for advocacy with your representative and senator and others in the community.

This part of the presentation will be given by Peter Vickery of Bobrowski & Vickery, LLC. Attorney Vickery practices law in Western Massachusetts where he focuses on landlord-tenant law (representing landlords in Housing Court) and discrimination defense (representing business owners in the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination). He graduated from Oxford University (Jesus College) with a BA in Modern History; obtained his Post-Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of the West of England in Bristol; his JD from Boston University School of Law; and his Masters in Public Policy & Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Attorney Vickery served one term on the Governor's Council (the elected 8-member body that approves or vetoes the governor's choice of judges in Massachusetts) and on the State Ballot Law Commission. As Legislative Affairs Counsel for MassLandlords he drafts bills, bill summaries, and testimony in the area of housing law, and writes amicus briefs in cases that have strategic significance for rental-property owners.

Wednesday, June 24th

• 12:00pm Webinar Begins
• 1:00pm Webinar Ends (this webinar may run late to 1:15)

Registration

Open to the public. Membership is not required!

• Public: $6
• Members: $3

Webinar Details (hosted by Zoom)

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• You can chat questions. You will not be on video or audio.

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Watch Live (on June 24, 2020 12:00 PM):

When: Jun 24, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Topic: Webinar June 24, 2020 Fair and Equal Housing Guarantee via Surety Bonds 

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