Posts tagged Dopa
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DC has never used this tool to purchase buildings for affordable housing. Will new changes put the program to use?
It’s been more than a decade since DC lawmakers sought to add the District Opportunity to Purchase Act as a new tool to preserve affordable housing in the city. But the resulting program has languished ever since, prompting the DC Council to approve legislative fixes last week to facilitate a role for the DC government in purchasing rental buildings and protecting tenants who might otherwise be displaced. Keep reading…
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DC Council held a roundtable about how to get emergency rental assistance to residents. Here’s my testimony.
On February 22, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau held a roundtable on emergency rental assistance. The roundtable also addressed the goings-on of the mayor’s strike force on rental housing, a group of mayoral appointees tasked with delivering 10 recommendations by mid-March on how to “save” rental housing. by mid-March. Alex Baca, GGWash’s policy manager offered testimony at this meeting. Keep reading…
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16 things DC (and other cities) could do about housing in a downturn
Housing and land-use policy have lasting impacts on how the built environment works. Even mere rhetoric around them functions on a longer timescale than the immediate response required in a crisis moment, to say nothing of plans and laws, which stay on the books for decades. As municipalities design reopenings and recoveries, they should be proactive, not reactive. Keep reading…
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Passed in 2008, this affordable housing law has never been used. Now DC is finally getting ready for DOPA.
Here's our handy primer to help you understand the nuances of DOPA, or the District Opportunity to Purchase Act, and how it's different from TOPA, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Keep reading…