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Preventing Displacement

Win-Win Transactions In the San Francisco Housing Market

IMPACT promotes housing stability. Our team has decades of experience in complex real estate transactions and tenant rights law, always working to prevent displacement and preserve affordable housing. We are agents, brokers and attorneys, preservation experts. We've closed 40+ transactions under the S.F. Small Sites Program (SSP). We helped write the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) and SB 1079 (Calif. Civil Code § 2924m).

TENANTS - We represent tenant buyers, on the open market, and by enforcing various tenant rights to purchase, such as: rent to own agreements, installment sale contracts, options, rights of first refusal, and the right to purchase under the SF condo conversion ordinance. We are also working to pass a Tenant Right to Purchase Act (TOPA) in San Francisco.

AFFORDABLE HOUISNG PROVIDERS - We represent local non-profits, usually Community Land Trusts or Community Development Corporations, purchasing apartment buildings for operation as permanent affordable housing. Sellers receive fair market value and tenants become secure in their housing.

​FORECLOSED BUILDINGS - Important rights in a state law we proposed gives tenants and certain non-profits a right to purchase at the Trustee Sale (auction) price! This opportunity lasts only 45 days, so contact IMPACT right away. 

Call or email for more information. 
Learn how your building SCORES UNDER the SF HOUSING PRESERVATION PROGRAM
"Owning my apartment makes me feel like I belong here,
​ and it's my home now.“  — Marcello D.

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3326-3328 25th St. [SOLD] Tenants no longer under threat of eviction. Why? Because they overcame the obstacles and bought the building.
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Our client was the successful bidder under SB 1079 (Civil Code §2924m)
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528-530 Natoma [SOLD] This important Small Sites purchase saved the long-term tenancies of six families.

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1130 Filbert [SOLD] Four units preserved as affordable housing in Supv. Dist. 3. Congratulations to the S.F. Community Land Trust!
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375 14th Street [SOLD] Sixteen units preserved as affordable housing in the Mission. Congratulations S.F. Housing Development Corporation!
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285 Turk Street [SOLD] This 42 unit mixed-use building was exempt from rent control. Now it's deed restricted Affordable Housing thanks to the S.F. Community Land Trust!

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613-619 S 24th Street [SOLD] Foreclosed triplex, under threat of eviction, now permanent affordable housing. Congratulations RichmondLAND!
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5044 Fairfax Ave [SOLD]
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5000 Third Street [SOLD] This building, a former bank, is now a protected asset for the community.

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1404 Palou Ave [SOLD] Grandma was a victim of elder financial abuse and nearly lost the family home. We fought to get it back, and sold it for the family, at full fair market value.
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380 14th St Apt 205 [SOLD] BMR condominium.
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168 Sickles Ave [SOLD] Twelve more units set aside as permanently affordable housing, for the present residents and generations to come.

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610-612 Guerrero [SOLD]
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239-241 Duboce Ave [SOLD]
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2676-2682 Folsom [SOLD]

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566 Natoma St. [SOLD]
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1382 30th Ave. [SOLD]
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3254-3264 23rd St. [SOLD]

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3225 24th St. [SOLD]
The first pure COPA transaction!
MEDA closed early at the seller's request.
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2153-2157 Grove St. [SOLD]
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2260 Mission St. [SOLD]

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239 Clayton Street [SOLD]
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369 3rd Avenue [SOLD]
Small Sites Preservation in the Richmond!
SF Weekly
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3544 Taraval [SOLD]
Small Sites Preservation in the Sunset!

1535 Jackson St. [In Contract]
1535 Jackson St. [SOLD]
Chinatown CDC acquires 1535 Jackson
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520 Shrader [SOLD]
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Mission Economic Development Agency
S.F. MOHCD
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147 Gladstone [SOLD]
IMPACT is proud to have represented this first time home buyer family, purchasing under the S.F. Downpayment Assistance Loan Program 
Conversion to Permanent Affordable Housing

4830 Mission St.


MEDA  purchased this ​non rent-controlled building, under the S.F. Small Sites Acquisition and Rehabilitation Program, thereby converting converting 27 market rate units to 100% Affordable Housing! 
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SF Chronicle
SF Examiner
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800 Clement St. [Closed 12-07-18]
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65-69 WoodWard St. [Closed 02-22-18]
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658-660 Ivy St. [​Closed 02-07-18]
​Tenants now own their units!

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3280 17th St. [Closed 01-03-18]
Sixteen units, five storefronts and eleven residential apartments.
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60 28th St. [Closed 12-15-17]
Six units with parking at 28th & Dolores.
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2205 Mission St. [Closed 12-07-17]
​Soon to be 48 units of affordable housing plus 10,000 sq ft of performing arts space!
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305 San Carlos [Closed 10-31-17]
Twelve units, two commercial and ten residential.
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Eighteen units, one commercial and seventeen residential.
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35 Fair Avenue [Closed 07-14-2017]
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19 Precita Ave [Closed 06-14-17]
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1411 Florida St [Closed 05-24-17]
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1015 Shotwell [Closed 05-12-17]
Add ten units of permanently affordable housing in the Mission!
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​2693 22nd St [Closed 05-01-17]
Buy & Stay - long term tenants settle hard-fought eviction lawsuit, buying the apartment. A rare, win-win resolution.


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