Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
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Urban Life, Landscape and Policy

Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC

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Urban Life, Landscape and Policy

Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC

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When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property taxes make buildings unaffordable, or landlords may sell buildings to investors interested in redeveloping them into luxury condos. 

In her engaging study The Politics of Staying Put, Carolyn Gallaher focuses on a formal, city-sponsored initiativeā€”The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA)ā€”that helps people keep their homes. This law, unique to the District of Columbia, allows tenants in apartment buildings contracted for sale the right to refuse the sale and purchase the building instead. In the hands of tenants, a process that would usually hurt themā€”conversion to a condominium or cooperativeā€”can instead help them.  

Taking a broad, city-wide assessment of TOPA, Gallaher follows seven buildings through the program's process. She measures the law's level of success and its constraints. Her findingshave relevance for debates in urban affairs about condo conversion, urban local autonomy, and displacement. 

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781439912669
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Staying Put in the New DC
  4. 2. From Bullets to Cocktails: A Capital Transformation
  5. 3. Gentrification and Its Discontents
  6. 4. The Rental Housing Conversion and Sale Act of 1980
  7. 5. Sample Conversions and Metrics of Analysis
  8. 6. Displacement Mitigation and Its Limits
  9. 7. Markets, Politics, and Other Obstacles to Low-Income Home Ownership
  10. 8. ā€œ95/5ā€: The TOPA Sidestep
  11. 9. Is TOPA the Politics of Staying Put We Want?
  12. Appendix 1: Glossary of Terms
  13. Appendix 2: A Short Primer on Condominiums
  14. Appendix 3: Interviews
  15. References
  16. Index