Legal Opinion
District of Columbia v. Brookstowne Community Development Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 21, 2010No. 08-CV-264PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Chief Judge:
The District of Columbia appeals from a judgment entered against it for breach of a contract to sell, pursuant to the District’s Homestead Program created by the Homestead Housing Preservation Act of 1986 (“HHPA”), D.C.Code § 45-2701 et seq. (1996), 1 a multi-family residential apartment building to Brookstowne Community Development Company (“Brooks-towne”), a for-profit entity. On appeal, as before the trial court, the District contends that the HHPA prohibits such sales of property to for-profit entities, so it could not have entered into the Brookstowne contract as…
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