Aug 30, 2025 · The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is a legislative framework designed to empower residents of rental properties. Its primary purpose is to provide tenants with the first chance …

The DC Office of the Tenant Advocate’s (OTA) Education & Community Outreach team (E&O) offers tenants and tenant associations classes on the TOPA process as well as technical assistance. …

Dec 31, 2025 · The DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is required to promulgate regulations within 180 days to assist in interpreting TOPA. We met with DHCD last week …

Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) legislation creates an overly complex, lengthy and bureaucratic process for the sale of an apartment community, beginning with the requirement that a …

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Nov 14, 2025 · TOPA stands for the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, a flagship District law that gives tenants the first right to purchase the rental unit or building they occupy when the owner …

TOPA, or Tenant Opportunity to Purchase, gives tenants the right to make the first offer on their building if the landlord decides to sell it. Working together, tenants associations could access public money …

The District’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) was enacted over 40 years ago, during a time of minimal rental housing construction and widespread condominium conversions, leaving tenants …

On July 3, 2018, a new law became effective that exempts single family dwellings from TOPA, unless occupied by elderly or disabled tenants. The significant provisions of the TOPA Single-Family Home …

Gives tenants and Qualified Nonprofits the right to purchase your property ahead of the open market. Lengthens sales of properties such as single family homes and duplexes, up to 200 days to allow for …