Annie Wilson (remote) on Intro 649 and personal displacement experience
Wilson supports Intro 649 based on her personal experience of being displaced from her apartment of 30 years through a partnership with UHAB and BFC, arguing that disclosure requirements should be included in COPA to prevent vetted developers from making mistakes that harm tenants.
Annie Wilson.
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Good afternoon.
Thank you for this opportunity to speak.
And I wanted to express my thoughts on Intro 649 and the TOPA bill.
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So I wanted to address two of the bills in the suite of bills, which include the intro 649, the identification of owners.
I think that that's an excellent idea.
I myself had unfortunately.
Been a victim of the lack of disclosure in a partnership that include a beneficial rights agreement.
And even though it's for existing buildings that are completed, I was in a city program,
which allowed for a beneficial rights contract between the partners, which at the time were UHAB and Don Kaposha BFC with Juan Barahuna of BNN, that renovated a building that I had lived in 30 years.
I was a co-founder of the Tenants Association in the early 80s.
I agreed to leave.
I signed a relocation.
Contract and they wouldn't allow me back into my apartment and gave it to a very wealthy person, Rosera Dawson's uncle from Texas.
And then even though I was trained as a some kind of manager, they just obstructed me.
You have
mismanaged the case.
I won't go into it.
I'm saying that not all that you have does is problematic, but in my case, unfortunately, I was a
A sacrificial lamb.
So, relying to the required disclosures, I think that this partnership disclosure and LLC and beneficial rights should be included in the COPPA.
Because that is a loophole in the COPPA.
When there are so-called vetted developers, they might go down the wrong road, or as the HPD commissioner said earlier today, turn around the wrong corner.
They qualify buyers sometimes.
Make mistakes.
And in my case, they forced me out of my home, out of my community, and I've testified to this body several times.
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Next is Jack Sia.