Step 1
Understand the issue.
Read the plain-language explainer and see what the proposal would actually change.
Learn → connect → act
Turn housing information into organized power.
Affordable Forever helps people understand the policy and the building-level stakes. When a coalition already has the campaign infrastructure, we send supporters into that campaign instead of competing with it.
How this action system works
Step 2
Raise your hand.
Optionally join Affordable Forever so we can connect organizing interest to buildings, neighborhoods and campaigns.
Step 3
Take the live campaign action.
When a trusted coalition maintains the current petition or legislative action, use that system rather than duplicating it.
Current campaigns
Campaign links and bill status can change. We keep education, organizing intake and coalition action separate so each can be updated without rewriting the others.
New York City
COPA — Community Opportunity to Purchase
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COPA would create a protected opportunity for qualified mission-driven purchasers when certain covered residential properties are sold. Community land trusts can be part of that preservation ecosystem when they meet the bill's qualification requirements.
Coalition action currently hosted by New Economy Project through its PowerBase/CiviCRM campaign system. Affordable Forever does not receive the information submitted on that separate form.
New York State
TOPA — Tenant Opportunity to Purchase
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TOPA would put collective tenant purchase rights at the center of a building sale and can connect those rights to qualified purchasers, supportive partners, community land trusts and other permanently affordable ownership structures.
We have not yet verified a current coalition action URL that we are comfortable presenting as the canonical TOPA handoff. Until then, we will not invent one.
Federal + New York preservation policy
LIHTC — stop rebuilding the expiration cliff
Affordable Forever agenda-setting work
LIHTC remains central to Affordable Forever. The advocacy gap is different here: there is no single live New York campaign equivalent to the COPA coalition, so the project is building the evidence, reform agenda and eventual decision-maker action layer itself.
Permanent affordability
Community land trusts & community ownership
Movement infrastructure
Purchase rights create an opportunity to acquire. CLTs, limited-equity cooperatives, nonprofit ownership and social housing can help turn a one-time preservation win into durable community stewardship.
Why collect organizing information at all?
Because a housing website becomes much more useful when people can raise their hands. With permission, Affordable Forever can begin connecting tenants and organizers by building, neighborhood and issue — while keeping that relationship separate from coalition petitions and never treating a signup as legal eligibility or public endorsement.
Join the Affordable Forever organizing network →Action is more than clicking a button
Organize the building.Neighbors who know one another can share information, verify notices and act collectively before a deadline.
Verify the documents.A database signal is a reason to investigate. Governing agreements and overlapping protections control the real legal picture.
Build permanent alternatives.A preservation win is stronger when tenants have choices that include CLTs, limited-equity cooperatives, nonprofit ownership and other durable structures.