How Policy Can Help Tenants Purchase Their Homes, a Shelterforce and NPQ webinar

Laws that give tenants the ability to purchase their own apartments are popping up across the country. In this webinar, a panel of folks who have been reporting on, fighting for, and using these policies offer their perspectives on this powerful anti-displacement tool.
The moderators were NPQ economic justice senior editor Steve Dubb and Shelterforce editor in chief Miriam Axel-Lute. The panelists were:
-Roshan Abraham, a journalist who has written widely on housing issues both for Next City and Shelterforce. He is based in Queens, New York City.
-José García, associate director of preservation at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) in San Francisco.
-Tram Hoang, a senior associate at PolicyLink, where she focuses on housing policy work. She led a successful rent stabilization campaign in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2021.
-Elin Zurbrigg, co-executive director of Mi Casa, an affordable housing development nonprofit focused on facilitating tenant opportunity to purchase, based in Washington, D.C.
Read the transcript here: shelterforce.o...