Despite a recent Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts residents still face having equity in their homes taken under a confiscatory state statute known as absolute title, according to advocates and lawyers working to have that dubious practice stopped immediately.
In May, the nation’s highest court ruled in Tyler v. Hennepin County that a municipality Minnesota had violated the U.S. Constitution’s takings clause when it sold a foreclosed property and kept proceeds beyond what the property owner owed in taxes.