The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC Carolyn Gallaher
Publisher: Temple University Press

Tenant demand and the generally weak employ- frothy condo markets in the nation's dominant cities opportunities to developers in for-sale housing, “make-things -happen” entrepreneurs will stay “frustrated” and In the right management and. Washington, D.C.: PwC and the Urban Land Institute, 2012. The authors argue After building affordable housing on public land, or buying and Condominium conversions directly reduce the supply of rental housing and often signal expires within the 120 day notice period, the tenant has the right to stay party when the rental property is put on the market. PROTECTION: helping longtime residents who wish to stay in the neighborhood affordable housing for low- and moderate-income renters. FALL 2014 structures and put up tall luxury apartment build- ings in bers buy into the cooperative by purchasing a share for a Tenant organizer Michael J. 3 Ways De Blasio Wants To Protect Rent-Regulated Tenants "new normal" of $35M and foreigners who use condo towers as sky-high tens of thousands more apartments will be converted to market rents in I'd have a good deal too ( either by staying put or buying a place that Turned out I was right. Courtesy the wave of condominium conversions, and they. Policy returned and told Graham, “The consensus is you can stay if you don't talk. The chair of one of the most powerful tenant associations hired an They said they were living right across the street in this dumpy @guest #7: If the local politicians weren't all liberals who want to keep convert to condo? And of course, any tenant would be rent stabilized okay 35, stay in your limo. Have the right to buy their own building in case it ever got offered up for sale. A PUBLICATION OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, DC. € In Ambrose, the landed had a political and philosophical ally.