Measuring success by the affordable housing our clients produce, preserve, and protect.We are dedicated agents of change, anti-displacement, with decades of experience in tenant rights and real estate law, preemptive rights, and complex real estate transactions. IMPACT serves: community development organizations, community land trusts, Tenants buying their apartments, Tenants organizing to buy apartment buildings, buyers and sellers of Below Market Rate apartments. (Featured BMR listing.) We also represent buyers and sellers of San Francisco apartment buildings under the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA).
Tenants - contact us if your apartment is for sale and you are interested in buying, or if your apartment building is for sale and you are concerned about having to move. Tenants in Foreclosed Buildings - Important new rights we proposed in a new state law provide tenants and certain non-profits a right to purchased at the Trustee Sale (auction) price! This opportunity lasts only 45 days, so contact us immediately. Ask us about SB 1079. Apartment Owners - contact us about getting market value for your building, and other advantages, by selling to a "qualified nonprofit" under San Francisco's Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). |
"Owning my apartment makes me feel like I belong here, and it's my home now.“ — Marcello D.
Our Transactions
Small Sites Preservation in the Richmond!
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Small Sites Preservation in the Sunset!
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IMPACT is proud to have represented this first time home buyer family, purchasing under the S.F. Downpayment Assistance Loan Program
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Conversion to 100% 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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Add ten units of permanently affordable housing in the Mission!
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Buy & Stay - long term tenants settle hard-fought eviction lawsuit, buying the apartment. A rare, win-win resolution.
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