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Public News Service: NYC Bill Gives Nonprofits a Chance to Buy Apartment Buildings
A New York City bill to help tenants is poised to finally become law. The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act allows vetted nonprofits like community land trusts the first chance to buy certain multifamily buildings when a landlord decides to sell them.
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Brick Underground: City Council Passes COPA, Paving the Way For Land Trusts and Non-Profits to Get First Dibs on Failing Buildings
After six years of fighting for New York City legislation to give community land trusts and nonprofits the first shot at buying failing apartment buildings, tenant advocates finally scored a victory Thursday.
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Crain’s New York Business: Nonprofits to Get First Dibs on Buying Distressed Multifamily Housing
Starting next year, certain nonprofits and joint ventures can get a head start when bidding on distressed multifamily buildings in New York City.
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City Limits: Council Passes Bill Giving Nonprofits First Dibs in Distressed Building Sales—With Mayor’s Support
It was so close and yet, so far. But now the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) appears to have broken through for good. The bill passed the City Council for the second time in less than a year Thursday, and will head next to the mayor’s desk.
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City Council Passes the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA), Giving Community Groups a New Tool to Stabilize and Preserve Affordable Housing
Amid a deepening housing crisis, the New York City Council today passed the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (Intro 905-A), or COPA—a landmark piece of legislation designed to stabilize and expand the supply of permanently affordable, community-controlled homes.
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The Real Deal: Policy Pro: COPA’s Council sponsor boasts “win” against private sector
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act is slated for a City Council vote this week. It’s the second time in less than a year that the Council is voting on the contentious bill that would give city-approved nonprofits and joint ventures the first opportunity to buy certain distressed multifamily properties when they go for sale.…
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Power to the People: Pass the NYC POWER Act
We can’t build a just economy when our current system allows corporations to exploit working people and extract wealth from communities of color, with impunity.
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STATEMENT: National Coalition of Civil Rights, Community Groups from Payday Loan-Free States Celebrates Enova Withdrawal, Calls on Regulators to Drop Oppfi Bank Bid
The Stop Taking Our Pay Coalition, a broad based alliance of civil rights organizations, community groups, community development credit unions, and faith leaders from the 21 states that ban payday lending, celebrates the announcement that predatory payday lender Enova International has withdrawn its bid to become a national bank, following strong opposition from coalition members…
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Queens Ledger: COPA Inches Closer to Law as Support Builds in City Council
Speaking before her colleagues on the City Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings on Wednesday, September 9, the Bushwick councilmember once again delivered the opening testimony for the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) — her landmark bill that would empower trusted nonprofits to acquire distressed apartment buildings before corporate real estate can.
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City Limits: Is It Finally COPA’s Year?
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA), which would give some tenants and community groups pathways to bid early on certain buildings that go up for sale, finally has support of Council, city housing officials, and the mayor.
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Tenants, Community Groups, Electeds Rally At City Hall for the Community Opportunity To Purchase Act (COPA) As Council Holds Key Hearing
More than 150 tenants, community groups and elected officials rallied on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday morning, calling on the City Council to pass the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, or COPA (Intro 905), sponsored by Council Member Sandy Nurse. The action preceded a key City Council hearing on the bill, at which…
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The City Reporter: East New York Residents Try Buying Back Their Neighborhood, One Lot At a Time
Debra Ack beamed with pride as she looked at the two-story brown brick warehouse on Jamaica Avenue in East New York.
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