Carolyn Gallaher: The Politics of Staying Put

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p> <i>Analyzes whether tenant right-to-buy programs may mitigate displacement in fast-gentrifying cities like Washington, DC</i> <br><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2369_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Politics of Staying Put</h1> <H2>Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC </H2> <h3>Carolyn Gallaher</h3> paper: $34.95, Mar 16<BR>EAN: 978-1-4399-1265-2<BR><font color=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT><font size=-7><br> </font></p><p class="info">cloth: $84.50, <BR>EAN: 978-1-4399-1264-5<BR><font color=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT><font size=-7><br> </font></p><p class="info">e-book: $34.95, <BR>EAN: 978-1-4399-1266-9<BR><font color=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT><font size=-7><br> </font></p></p></td></tr></table> <BR> <p class="info">282 pp<BR> 6 x 9<BR> 33 color illustrations<BR></P> <p class="info"><font size=-7> </font></p><p class="info"> </P><BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <p> When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property taxes make buildings unaffordable, or landlords may sell buildings to investors interested in redeveloping them into luxury condos. <br> <p>In her engaging study <i>The Politics of Staying Put, </i>Carolyn Gallaher focuses on a formal, city-sponsored initiative—The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA)—that helps people keep their homes. This law, unique to the District of Columbia, allows tenants in apartment buildings contracted for sale the right to refuse the sale and purchase the building instead. In the hands of tenants, a process that would usually hurt them—conversion to a condominium or cooperative—can instead help them. <br> <p>Taking a broad, city-wide assessment of TOPA, Gallaher follows seven buildings through the program’s process. She measures the law’s level of success and its constraints<i>. </i>Her findings<i> </i>have relevance for debates in urban affairs about condo conversion, urban local autonomy, and displacement. <br> <P CLASS="top"><A HREF="#top">BACK TO TOP</A></P>  <BR>   <P> </P><BR>  <H2>About the Author(s)</H2><p> <b>Carolyn Gallaher</b> is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of <i>On the Fault Line: Race, Class, and the American Patriot Movement</i>, and <i>Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-accord Northern Ireland.</i> <br> <P CLASS="top"><A HREF="#top">BACK TO TOP</A></P> <p><h2>Subject Categories</h2><A HREF="/tempress/urban.html" TARGET="_top">Urban Studies</a><BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a><BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> </p> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/urban_life.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status="; return true;" target="_top”><p> Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy <br> </p><p> <i>Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy Series</i>, edited by Zane L. Miller, David Stradling, and Larry Bennett, features books that examine past and contemporary cities, focusing on cultural and social issues. The editors seek proposals that analyze processes of urban change relevant to the future of cities and their metropolitan regions, and that examine urban and regional planning, environmental issues, and urban policy studies, thus contributing to ongoing debates. <br /> <br></p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2369_reg.html</font></p>