Resources
Below are resources to learn how TOPA has worked in Washington, DC as well as TOPA efforts in the Bay Area and across the country.
Washington, DC
Creating a Commons in the Capital - includes history of the movement that TOPA grew out of and other early history
DC’s First Right to Purchase Program Helps to Preserve Affordable Housing
Preservation Works: LISC Washington, DC
Building a Local Housing Preservation Ecosystem: TOPA and Local Policy
Lessons from 20 Years of Enabling Tenants to Buy Their Buildings
Creating and Sustaining Limited Equity Cooperatives in the District of Columbia
Bay Area/California
EBCLC - Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act
Rooted in Home - Community Based Alternatives to the Bay Area Housing Crisis
Moms 4 Housing Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (Oakland)
Creating a Tenant Opportunity to Purchase - Berkeley, CA
Opinion: Turning crisis into opportunity: Why Berkeley needs TOPA now
San Jose Community Opportunity to Purchase Act
TOPA4LA - TOPA campaign in Los Angeles County
East Palo Alto Opportunity to Purchase Act
Should Renters Get First Dibs in Bay Area Real Estate Deals?
Opportunity to Purchase Act Campaign Playbook
Opinion: It’s time to pass Berkeley’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act
TechEquity Presentation on COPA/TOPA
Nationally
Giving Tenants the First Opportunity to Purchase Their Homes
Why More Cities Are Hoping to Give Tenants a Chance to Purchase Their Buildings
With Evictions Looming, Cities Revisit a Housing Experiment from the ‘70s
Opportunity to Purchase Policy Options for the City of Minneapolis - corresponding presentation
Private Equity is Coming - The Future of Housing Security in the Age of COVID19 - TOPA highlighted on page 10
Los Angeles vs Washington D.C. In the Anti-Displacement Policy Race
TOPA - A National Movement - video presentation at 2021 National Community Reinvestment Coalition conference
Advancing Equity in Housing: The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act
Our Homes, Our Communities: How Housing Acquisition Strategies Can Create Affordable Housing, Stabilize Neighborhoods, and Prevent Displacement - TOPA highlighted on page 33 and the event that launched the report highlighted the Berkeley TOPA campaign