BIG NEWS: #COPA now has a veto-proof majority in the NYC Council! The bill would stabilize affordable housing & curb displacement by giving community land trusts and other qualified nonprofits a first right to purchase buildings when a landlord sells. Let's pass #COPA this year!

We’re thrilled to see growing momentum for passage of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act! Check out this op-ed from Councilmembers Brooks-Powers, Riley & Williams; it quotes our research into the impact #COPA could have in their Bronx & Queens districts.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

Check out this powerful op-ed in @cityandstateny.bsky.social:
Councilmembers from the Bronx & Queens are calling for passage of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act.

www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

@nycspeakeradams.bsky.social, let's get #COPA done this year!

Community Land Trusts Are Standing Up to New York City’s Worst Landlords New legislation could accelerate a growing movement of tenants who refuse to be at the mercy of developers and want to take ownership of their communities’ resources.

As our Elise Goldin told @thenation.com, the community land trust movement is "about how to gain control of where we live, and fighting against displacement—making sure that land & housing is used for people, not for profit.”

Read the powerful feature here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Don’t get discouraged. Tenants can be their own homeowners. And with both community land trusts & the passage of #TOPA, we can make it happen far & wide!
— Ana Markland, a resident of East New York CLT’s first acquired building

@govkathyhochul.bsky.social we need #TOPA & $250 M in the budget!

Brooklyn tenant leader Denise Clay, her neighbors, and NYers statewide demand #TOPA & $250M in the state budget!
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social will you stand with tenants and ensure the opportunity to purchase our homes?

“Out in East New York, we have speculators, predators and private equity preying on our neighborhood. We don’t have the necessary legislation in place to fight back. That's why we need #TOPA. TOPA is about economic, land and housing justice.”
—our coalition member Albert Scott of East New York CLT

Tenants & our state elected champions stood together today in the capitol to demand the passage of #TOPA & $250M in this year’s state budget! @govkathyhochul.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, pass #TOPA to ensure our homes stay affordable and community-controlled!!

On our way to Albany to urge @leaderasc.bsky.social @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @govkathyhochul.bsky.social to pass #TOPA in this year's budget. With #TOPA, we can create permanently affordable, community-controlled housing in low-income + Black & brown communities statewide!
nyccli.org/topa/

A Look at Community Land Trusts and How They Work Community Land Trusts are just one model of affordable housing being utilized across the United States.

“There was a ground movement of residents saying, ‘Enough is enough; we don't have quality services. Our landlord is not present,’...[Now we're] converting the property from a landlord rental model to a cooperative model."
-Boris Santos of East New York CLT, in @time.com!

time.com/7212194/comm...