3 Easy steps to see if you qualify
Step 1
ULS prioritizes its services to properties, tenants associations, and cooperatives where the majority of building residents have incomes below 80% of the Area Median Income and/or buildings that have existing loans from the DC Department of Housing and Community Development.
Step 2
If you are an eligible DC resident in need of our services, please contact us at (202) 547-4747 (Telephone), (202) 547-2083 (Facsimile), or (202) 547-2657.
Step 3
Upon hearing your specific needs, we will connect you to Tenant Purchase Program Manager Andrew Martin for further assistance.
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Benefits of the Tenant Purchase Assistance Program the Tenant Purchase Program:
Managing a building is a lot of responsibility – board members with full-time jobs cannot be expected to do this work alone.
So, what can you gain from working with the Tenant Purchase Technical Assistance Program?
- First-hand access to our 29 years of housing finance, renovation, and community organizing experience to help trouble-shoot problems your cooperative may be experiencing.
- Individualized short and longer-term planning for your cooperative.
- Feedback on the physical maintenance needs of your building.
- Effective strategies for reducing cooperative operating costs, responding to administrative needs, and keeping your corporate and financial affairs organized.
- Typically, ULS provides free asset management services and can provide development consultant services for a fee.
Subprograms
Affordable Housing Asset Management
Just like buying a building, managing one is no easy feat. ULS helps busy DC tenants with the ins and outs of asset management.
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Tenant Purchase Technical Assistance
Since the 1980s, under the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), tenants in DC have had the legal right to organize and submit a matching offer to purchase their building from their landlord when it was offered for sale. ULS helps tenant groups through this complicated and long process.
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Benefits of the Tenant Purchase Assistance Program the Tenant Purchase Program:
Managing a building is a lot of responsibility – board members with full-time jobs cannot be expected to do this work alone.
So, what can you gain from working with the Tenant Purchase Technical Assistance Program?
- First-hand access to our 29 years of housing finance, renovation, and community organizing experience to help trouble-shoot problems your cooperative may be experiencing.
- Individualized short and longer-term planning for your cooperative.
- Feedback on the physical maintenance needs of your building.
- Effective strategies for reducing cooperative operating costs, responding to administrative needs, and keeping your corporate and financial affairs organized.
- Typically, ULS provides free asset management services and can provide development consultant services for a fee.