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The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)

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When cities gentrify, it may be hard for working-class and low-source of revenue 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 makes a speciality of a formal, city-sponsored initiative—The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA)—that helps people keep their homes. This law, unique to the District of Columbia, allows tenants in apartment buildings shrunk for sale the correct to refuse the sale and purchase the building as an alternative. Within the hands of tenants, a process that would on a regular basis hurt them—conversion to a condominium or cooperative—can as an alternative assist them.  

Taking a broad, city-wide assessment of TOPA, Gallaher follows seven buildings through this system’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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