Housing Notebook

Mon, May 19, 2025 20:00 PM

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Hosts: Scott Sommer and Vajra Kilgour

Topics:

Topics of general interest to tenants, specifically the move toward tenants' purchase of their own housing -

Synopsis:

DC TENANTS ORGANIZE TO BUY THEIR DEVELOPMENT

As New York teanants organize for the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), sisters and brothers in Washington, DC, are on the move to buy their devlopment under DC's TOPA law. Scott Sommer spoke with tenants from the Park East Affordable Housing Cooperative Project about their campaign to secure housing stability.

Housing Notebook is a production of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, New York's oldest tenant union.

Guests:

Alex and Bethany from the Park East Affordable Housing Cooperative Project -

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Info / Links:

Met Council hotline: 212-979-0611, M & W 1:30-8 PM, F 1:30-5 PM, except Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day); metcouncilonhousing.org, thetenant.org; info@metcouncilonhousing.org; Facebook & Instagram: search for Met Council on Housing; email: housingnotebook@wbai.org – no housing problems please! X: @met_council, @wbai.org @scottmsommer (also on threads & bluesky); wbai.org – live stream, find archive, join radio station there or go to buddy.wbai.org to become a WBAI buddy – be sure to scroll down to choose Housing Notebook as the show you want to support! Or call 833-922-4692. Mail a check made out to WBAI-Pacifica to WBAI Radio, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217.
Tuesday walk-in clinics: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays downtown at 6:30 pm at Trinity Commons, 76 Trinity Place in Manhattan; 2nd and 4th Tuesdays uptown at 6 pm at 5030 Broadway. For more information, click here.
Training for Met Council volunteers will be Thursday, May 29, 6-8 pm, at the Met Council office, 470 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn. For all Met Council events, including those mentioned on air, find the calendar here.
For information about Rent Guidelines Board meetings, and information about how to sign up to speak at public meetings, click here.
TOPA For All Town Hall in Washington, DC, May 27, 6-7:30 pm, Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500 16th St NW, Washington, DC.

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