TASFGA · THE APPEALS
New York gives its 779,191 registered condominium and cooperative homes — well over a million residents — no organized voice, no qualification standard for the people who run their buildings, and nowhere to bring a complaint short of a lawsuit. These are the three reforms that would change that. Each one is concrete, and each is already within reach.
Representation
The City Council maintains nine official caucuses — animal welfare, Irish heritage, and seven more. Not one represents the 779,191 registered condo and co-op homes in the city. A caucus is the bloc that would treat a million-plus homeowners as a constituency instead of an afterthought.
Read the case →Qualification
In New York a barber needs a state license, an exam, and a disciplinary board. The person managing a $200M residential building with a multi-million-dollar budget needs none of it. One bill — S.71 — would change that, and it currently has a single sponsor whose term ends in December.
The licensure gap →Recourse
When a board self-deals, withholds records, or rigs an election, a New York owner’s only recourse is a lawsuit they pay for themselves. Florida runs an Office of the Condominium Ombudsman for exactly this. A New York bill, S.7745, would create one. It has not passed.
Why the void is total →A FAIR QUESTION
Every homeowner in New York has a stake in how the city treats owner-occupiers — property-tax classification alone is a grievance shared by the owner of a two-family house in Marine Park and the owner of a condo in Long Island City. So why not a broad Homeowners Caucus from the start?
Because the governance vacuum these appeals address is specific to collective ownership. An unlicensed managing agent, a board that self-deals, a Local Law 97 fine passed through to common charges, an election with no oversight — these are the failure modes of a co-op or condo, not of a single-family home. That is where the law is emptiest and where our public-record data can prove the case building by building.
So co-op and condo owners are the beachhead, not the boundary. The 779,191-home figure is the number we can source today. The broader homeowner coalition is where this grows — and when it does, we will widen the number honestly, with the same discipline.
WHAT MOVES IT
A caucus forms, a bill moves, and an office opens when the people a member represents keep raising the same thing. If a co-op or condo is your home, your building already sits in our record, and your district already has a profile with the numbers attached.