New York State Assembly
A6100
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Sponsor: Marcela Mitaynes
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Read the official Assembly bill record →New York State · Tenant Opportunity to Purchase
Give tenants time, information and a real chance to buy.
TOPA would create a statewide tenant purchase opportunity when covered rental housing is sold. Affordable Forever connects that policy fight to the buildings, preservation risks and legislative districts where early intervention can matter.
There are two pending TOPA bills — and they are not identical.
Affordable Forever keeps the Assembly and Senate versions separate. Until the Legislature agrees on final text and a bill becomes law, no website should collapse those differences into a single “TOPA eligibility” answer.
New York State Senate
S10169
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Sponsor: Julia Salazar
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Read the official Senate bill record →Pending legislation — not current law. Bill text, covered properties, exemptions, timelines and financing provisions can change. Affordable Forever treats the bill version and verification date as part of the evidence, not as fine print.
What TOPA is trying to change
A sale normally moves on the owner's timetable. TOPA is about inserting tenant power and preservation time before the transaction is over.
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Notice before the sale is finished
Tenants need meaningful notice early enough to organize, understand the transaction and decide whether they want to pursue a purchase opportunity.
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A real purchase pathway
A right on paper is not enough. Tenants need time, qualified partners, technical assistance and acquisition financing if the opportunity is going to be usable.
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Preservation beyond one transaction
Where public or mission-driven financing supports a TOPA purchase, the goal should be durable affordability and long-term tenant stability.
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Legislative districts
Show Albany the buildings in a district.
Use the existing Assembly and State Senate preservation brief to see known LIHTC properties, units and near-term preservation signals in a legislator's district.
Open the statewide district brief →Tenant front door
Start with one building.
The national LIHTC lookup remains available to tenants across the country. In New York, it can be the first step toward a deeper preservation and purchase-right analysis.
Find a building →Advocacy
Turn the research into a message.
Use the TOPA campaign template, then personalize it with a building, neighborhood or district story.
Take action →The statewide data layer is growing — and we will not fake completeness.
TOPA reaches beyond LIHTC. Affordable Forever's current property-level statewide tools are strongest for known subsidized and preservation-relevant housing. A complete statewide TOPA universe requires broader property, rent-regulation and program data.
Available nowNational LIHTC property records, New York Assembly/Senate district geography, existing preservation windows and legislative advocacy tools.
Next statewide layerHCR rent-regulation and program data, additional publicly supported housing, and better property crosswalks outside New York City.
Evidence standardDataset signal → enriched research → verified governing fact. No property is labeled TOPA-covered from a screening dataset alone.
Bill information on this page is loaded from Affordable Forever's bill-status file, verified against official New York legislative records. Last verification date is displayed from that source file.
TOPA is a statewide fight. The evidence should be statewide too.
Affordable Forever is building toward a district-by-district preservation and tenant-opportunity system that can help organizers and legislators see where purchase rights could matter before tenants are forced to react to a completed sale.
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