The Politics of Staying Put
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1264-5 (ISBN)
In her engaging study The Politics of Staying Put, Carolyn Gallaher focuses on a formal, city-sponsored initiative—The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA)—that helps people keep their homes. This law, unique to the District of Columbia, allows tenants in apartment buildings contracted for sale the right to refuse the sale and purchase the building instead. In the hands of tenants, a process that would usually hurt them—conversion to a condominium or cooperative—can instead help them.
Taking a broad, city-wide assessment of TOPA, Gallaher follows seven buildings through the program’s process. She measures the law’s level of success and its constraints. Her findingshave relevance for debates in urban affairs about condo conversion, urban local autonomy, and displacement.
Carolyn Gallaher is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of On the Fault Line: Race, Class, and the American Patriot Movement, and Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-accord Northern Ireland.
Acknowledgments
1 Staying Put in the New DC
2 From Bullets to Cocktails, a Capitol Transformation
3 Gentrification and Its Discontents
4 The Rental Housing Conversion and Sale Act of 1980
5 Sample Conversions and Metrics of Analysis
6 Displacement Mitigation and Its Limits
7 Markets, Politics, and other Obstacles to Low Income Home Ownership
8 ‘95/5’—The TOPA Sidestep
9 Is TOPA the ‘Politics of Staying Put’ We Want?
List of Interviews
Appendix 1: Glossary of Terms
Appendix 2: A Short Primer on Condominiums
Reihe/Serie | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy |
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Zusatzinfo | 12 tables, 5 line drawings, 16 halftones |
Verlagsort | Philadelphia PA |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4399-1264-5 / 1439912645 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4399-1264-5 / 9781439912645 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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