TOP 4 Washington State
Opportunity to Purchase for Manufactured Home communities - passed!!!! in WA State
In 2022, after years of organizing, Opportunity to Purchase supporting residents of Manufactured Home Communities, passed! SB 5198 gives notice of sale to community members, and to qualified affordable housing organizations, allowing them 70 days to put together an offer to purchase and preserve their communities as permanently affordable.
ROC USa, and the Northwest Co-op Deveopment center
ROC Northwest partners with owners to sell their MHP investment
Once under contract ROC Northwest supports the residents to incorporate as a limited equity housing cooperative with the sole purpose of purchasing their community
ROC NW offers technical assistance to the housing cooperative for a minimum of ten years, assisting them with the task of launching their small business and the management of the community
ROC NW has preserved 24 MHCs in WA State and counting
It's time to pass a t.o.P. law to preserve multifamily apartments as Permantly affordable!
The need for increased permanently affordable housing is growing. We need to aggressively pursue all forms of it, and it is time to pass a TOP law at the state level that allows tenants and affordable housing organizations a fair opportunity to purchase apartment buildings as permanently affordable housing stock. Washington DC has a model law, that has been doing such work for over 40 years. Read more about DC's TOPA program HERE.