CHARLES "Bill" TAYLER

I loved working with Bill. He was always very sweet to me and truly one of a kind.

Bill was a champion of the District's market-rate cooperative housing community. Recognizing the importance to the cooperative housing community to speak in a single voice and maintain the ability to respond quickly and knowledgeably on matters affecting housing cooperatives, Bill organized the DC Cooperative Housing Coalition.

Bill led the Coalition's efforts toward the passage of the Cooperative Housing Procedure Act of 1988 (D.C. Law 7-205), a law that provides for a uniform procedure and an equitable formula to assess real property owned by cooperatives. At the heart of many of these efforts spearheaded by Bill was the defense of cooperatives before the City Council to maintain parity between cooperative homeowners and single-family homeowners rather than to be treated as rental complexes.

Bill was a tireless supporter of the Coalition and the District's cooperative housing Community. The Coalition would not exist or have been as effective had Bill Tayler not recognized the need for such an organization more than 30 years ago.