TOPA 4 L.A.

05/15/2025

Hey friend (: i told my friend about what we’re working on to get money into our community to keep Altadena lands in Altadena hands and they wanna meet you. Come out to Thursday at 5:30pm! see u there -xoxo

05/02/2025

At our film screening and panel discussion with the , we came together — across generations and identities—to demand safe, stable housing for all.

Community members shared powerful stories of disaster, racist policies, and resistance. Time and again, Black, Indigenous, Latino, and LGBTQIA+ folks have supported one another and pioneered innovative paths to rebuilding—even in the wake of devastation.

Passing the Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act (T**A) is a crucial step toward not only rebuilding after disaster but preventing displacement before it starts. Let’s take action—sign the petition at the link in our bio!

04/29/2025

Hello Family!

We are doing a panel tonight with POP Pasadena to talk about how community land trusts can help Altadenans fight off speculative investors and keep Altadena in Altadenan hands.

Join us in person or live-stream tonight, or catch the recording tomorrow (:

09/14/2021

9/14/2021 - The LA City Council unanimously approves a motion by CMs Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin that will explore the feasibility of a citywide CLT pilot program modeled after the LA CLT Coalition's work with LA County. This is a great victory. We are making in-roads at the City every day and we are determined to show that the CLT model is a viable solution to the housing crisis that will permanently retain public subsidy, create pathways to home ownership and wealth-building for low-income residents, and ensure that housing is permanently affordable.

Thank you to Paul Koretz + Councilmember Mike Bonin and their staff for consulting and working the LA CLT Coalition and to to all who provided public and written comments!

09/14/2021

We need you to submit public comment in support of exploring a community land trust program at the City of Los Angeles!

🚨🚨🚨CALL TO ACTION! Let the City of Los Angeles know you want them to take the first step of beginning a LA City Community Land Trust Program! The LA CLT Coaliton has been able to preserve 8 buildings across the county for permanent affordability but more can be done!

Submit public comment —> https://bit.Ly/bvcltcity

08/17/2021

It’s our favorite day of the week: T**A Tuesday! You know what it is. Every Tuesday night from 600-630 PM on IG () and on Zoom (http://linktr.ee/topa4la).

This week, we got organizer, founder, board co-president, and all-around badass F***y Ortiz of Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre to re-cap our victory last week at the LA County Board of Supervisors and to share about a major victory we had at the statewide level with SB 1079 — the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program. We’ll explain what that program is, how it works, and how CLTs can use this new law and funding source to stabilize our communities by preventing families from being foreclosed upon.

And I’m your host for tonight, Matthew Vu (.sc), the Community Ownership Policy Advocate at TRUST South L.A. If you have any questions or topics you want us to explore, drop a comment below or DM us.

08/10/2021

Thank you to our supporters, endorsers, and the Board of Supervisors espcially our champion Sup. Hilda Solis and Sup. Sheila Kuehl who co-authored the motion. Now we have 90 days to get to work! Connect with us and let's continue expanding this movement for community control, democratic ownership, and permanently affordable housing.

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“Between a higher cost of living and larger, private developers outpricing smaller bidders on properties in Los Angeles, there are challenges to maintaining affordable housing options in Los Angeles,” shared Chair Solis. “However, the implementation of policies like T**A can provide a strategic approach that will empower community tenants and organizations to purchase local properties with the financial resources to compete in the housing market, while increasing the pool of affordable housing options, that could best serve vulnerable populations like low-income families and residents.”

This proposed strategy addresses housing disparities by expanding the pool of potential buyers should owners of certain types of property decide to sell. This expanded pool may include tenants, mission-driven affordable housing developers, community land trusts, and any other person or entity that is committed to providing permanent affordable housing, so they may compete with larger speculative forces in the housing market.

“Tenant Opportunity to Purchase is an innovative strategy to preserve affordable housing and slow gentrification and displacement,” said Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. “This approach can reduce the number of working families priced out of our overheated market by making it easier for renters, affordable housing developers, and community land trusts to more easily purchase residential property.”

Read more:

https://hildalsolis.org/los-angeles-county-approves-motion-develop-recommendations-tenant-opportunity-to-purchase-act-topa-for-unincorporated-los-angeles-county/

08/10/2021

New affordable housing units cost about $400k to $500k to build. The CLT Pilot Program is preserving each unit at around $325k, but that number will go down as more buildings close escrow.

Acquiring and rehabilitating buildings to be stewarded by community land trusts is quick, efficient, cost-effective, AND ensures that public subsidy is permanently maintained and not able to be exploited by bad actors who wait for affordability covenants to expire before they violently evict and displace the residents living there.

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“Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust Director of Land and Tenant Justice Kasey Ventura notes that, “Most if not all community land trusts require that residents of the community be part of the decision making process of the land trust” and those residents “make up part of the Board of Directors, thus really drive the direction of the work of the land trust, which can range from preserving housing, engaging in policy change, creating co-ops, and a wide variety of needs that neighborhoods identify.”

In late 2020, Supervisor Solis shepherded approval of a motion that funded up to $14 million for a pilot Community Land Trust Partnership Program. The motion directed the county to work with five CLTs – Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre, T.R.U.S.T South L.A., The Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust, Liberty Community Land Trust, and El Sereno Community Land Trust (partnering with Community Development Corporations) – to acquire and/or rehabilitate at least one property in each Supervisorial District, and to maintain it as long-term affordable housing.…To date, the total number of units is 43.”

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A recent L.A. County pilot program facilitated the purchase of 7-8 properties – located in Alhambra, East L.A., Harbor-Gateway, Huntington Park, Hyde Park, Koreatown, North Hollywood, and Sou…

08/09/2021

Adopting T**A would allow for our communities to
✅ Fight gentrification and displacement
✅ Create opportunities for ownership
✅ Build intergenerational wealth
✅ Stabilize communities with permanent affordability
Submit public comment to support T**A on 8/10 link in bio.

Adopción de T**A permitiría a nuestras comunidades
✅ Luchar contra la gentrificación y el desplazamiento
✅Crear oportunidades para la propiedad
✅ Estabilizar comunidades con asequibilidad permanente
Envíe un comentario público para apoyar a T**A en el enlace 8/10 en la bio.

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Hilda Solis
Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl
Supervisor Janice Hahn
Supervisor Kathryn Barger
Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust
The El Sereno Community Land Trust
TRUST South L.A.
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre

08/09/2021

LA is the epicenter of this housing crisis due to groups like Blackstone and Invitation Homes who are based here in LA. We can't allow corporate landlords to continue waging war on us by buying up our blocks, displacing our neighbors, locking us out of ownership, and making us a county of renters.

We need you to give public comment in support of T**A. http://linktr.ee/topa4la

Los Ángeles es el epicentro de esta crisis de vivienda debido a grupos como Blackstone e Invitation Homes. No podemos permitir que los propietarios corporativos continúen librando guerra contra nuestra comunidad: comprando nuestros bloques, desplazando a nuestros vecinos, excluyéndonos de la propiedad y convirtiéndonos en un condado de inquilinos.

Necesitamos que brinde comentarios públicos en apoyo de T**A. Enlace en biografía!

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Hilda Solis
Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl
Supervisor Janice Hahn
Supervisor Kathryn Barger
Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust
The El Sereno Community Land Trust
TRUST South L.A.
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre

08/09/2021

Last year, private equity amassed over $142 BILLION to purchase COVID-distressed properties, displace our neighbors, lock families out of homeownership, while turning our neighborhoods into revolving hotels.

T**A would allow us to prevent and protect against that. http://linktr.ee/topa4la

El capital privado acumuló más de $ 142 MIL MILLONES para comprar propiedades con problemas de COVID, desplazar a nuestros vecinos, evitar la propiedad de vivienda y convertir nuestros vecindarios en hoteles rotativos.

T**A se protegería contra eso. http://linktr.ee/topa4la

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Hilda Solis Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell Supervisor Sheila KuehlSupervisor Janice HahnSupervisor Kathryn Barger
Beverly Vermont Community Land TrustThe El Sereno Community Land Trust TRUST South L.A. Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre