Council hearing on Rental Act spotlights sharp split over TOPA reforms
At a Committee on Housing public hearing May 28, council members, tenant advocates and developers debated changes to the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) proposed in multiple bills, with developers urging broad exemptions to restore investment and tenant advocates warning exemptions would erode tenant agency and risk displacement.
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Washington — The D.C. Committee on Housing spent much of its May 28 public hearing parsing proposals to change the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA, as developers, nonprofit housing providers and tenant advocates clashed over exemptions and timelines in the Rental Act (B26‑164) and companion TOPA bills (including B26‑228 and Councilmember Nadeau’s Common Sense TOPA reform bill).
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