PDF-Organizing Tenants for TOPA

Amber Gruner Tenant Organizer with Housing Counseling Services So you and your neighbors just got TOPA now what You saw a TOPA packet posted in the hallway of your building and you got a packe. Tenants and other flatmates will how ever find it useful to have a written agreement The following is a sample of what could be included in an agreement This agreement is between the Head Tenant and Flatmate Head tenant details Flatmate details Nam time . ‘our story’ .   Jenny Hill & Martyn Lund. – Tenant Group members, Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH). Warts . and all . story. ….. ….. of . how the ARCH Tenants Group were involved in an exercise to develop tenants’ priorities which influenced the content of the ARCH and National Federation of ALMO’s . All of the houses I decided to purchase had their problems - some big, ugly problems.  Some of these were cosmetic and some were structural - some of the stuff was just nasty.  The fact that owners let their properties get to this point dumbfounds me.  Why would you let your investment get to the point where it is just disgusting?  Perhaps frustration, laziness or lack of caring?  What ever it is, around the corner are people like us who decide to buy it.  People who have vision - who see that with some attention the property will end up being a nice place for people to live. And those people will pay us rent.. ENHR, London March 2015. David Duffy, ESRI. Outline. Backdrop to survey. Landlord survey. Tenant survey. Context. Surveys undertaken May/June 2014. Part of major study. Rising rents. Calls for rent controls. Tenants Tenants This booklet is designed to inform tenants and landlords about their rights and responsibilities in rental relationships. It serves as a useful reference—complete and-answer for TPAS. Conference 2014. Ann Marie Stanley, . Scottish Government. Marian Reid, CIH Scotland. Setting the Scene. Housing (Scotland) Act 2001. Statutory requirement for tenant participation strategies. Betty Stevenson and Clare MacGillivray. Aims of Workshop. Social housing . and . tenant participation . in Scotland. Edinburgh Tenants Federation’s way of local . collective community action. Your experiences of collective action to . July 23, 2015. WELCOME. Reminders: . Please mute your device once you join the call. Remember to raise your hands for questions or write a message in text box. We will give everyone a chance to ask questions at the end of the presentation. Lynn Stewart. Regulation Manager. Context. 610,000 social housing . tenancies . in Scotland. Average weekly rent - £73. 61 per cent of households in social housing have net income of £15,000 or less. The Coming, Cleansing, Cursing and Conflict. “Then He began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedressers. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.”. So what is POWER?. Power is the ability to act.. Power is not good or bad. It is how you use it and toward what end.. Power unchecked or unaccountable can corrupt – it can also reveal…. Power is not a zero sum game – there is not a limited amount.. 1 Preservation Ecosystem: Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (TOPA) and Local Policy November 29, 2018 Danilo Pelletiere, Senior Policy Advisor Erin Wilson, Development Finance Division TOPA OVERVIEW A National Housing Trust | 1101 30th St NW, 100A, Washington, D.C. 20007 | 202-333-8931 | www.nhtinc.org The TOPA (Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act) Earnest Money Deposit Loan provides D.C. purchase I. olumbia Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) According to Sam Zimbabwe of the Center for Transit - Oriented Development, t he District of Columbia’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOP