ABOUT

The American Society
for Governance
Accountability.

Governance transparency and reform at every level — from condo boards to the White House.

THE MISSION

Accountability is not optional.

The American Society for Governance Accountability (TASFGA) is an independent public-interest organization dedicated to governance transparency, accountability, and reform. We believe that every governing body — whether it oversees a 50-unit condominium or a federal agency — owes the people it serves a clear accounting of its decisions, its spending, and its conflicts.

We build the tools, data systems, and public records that make accountability possible — because the institutions responsible for providing them have chosen not to.

THE FIRST PROJECT

CondosCoopsNYC

Our first initiative focuses on New York City's condominium and cooperative governance ecosystem — an industry where unlicensed managing agents control billions of dollars in residential real estate with no public registry, no complaint mechanism, and no regulatory oversight.

We reverse-engineered the managing agent registry the state refuses to maintain. We scored 15 firms across 4,447 buildings on Class C violation data. We documented 81 regulatory gaps, governance defects, and extraction patterns — each with primary sources and proposed fixes.

NYC housing is the starting point. It is not the ceiling.

THE THESIS

The patterns repeat.

The governance failures in NYC housing are not unique to housing. They are the same structural patterns that appear at every level of governance: captured boards, conflicted advisors, no transparency, no enforcement, extraction by intermediaries.

The condo board that retaliates against a dissenting owner uses the same playbook as the corporate board that silences a whistleblower. The managing agent that collects undisclosed vendor kickbacks operates like any unregulated intermediary in any industry. The absence of a complaint registry for managing agents mirrors the absence of accountability mechanisms in a dozen other governance domains.

When you see the pattern once, you see it everywhere. That is why this organization exists.

PRINCIPLES

How we work.

Public data first. Every claim links to a primary source. No anonymous tips. No unverifiable assertions. If we can't source it, we don't publish it.

Right of reply. Every entity we name gets the opportunity to respond before publication. Responses are published verbatim.

No advertising. No revenue from any entity we cover. No managing agent ads. No sponsor placements. No broker partnerships.

Open corrections. When we're wrong, we say so publicly, permanently, and without delay.

Systems, not individuals. We criticize patterns, entities, and structures — not people. Anger is aimed at systems.

DISCLOSURE

Who we are.

TASFGA was founded by Ernest P. Perez, a unit owner and board member at The Langston Condominium in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan. Mr. Perez is the plaintiff in Perez v. The Board of Managers of The Langston Condominium et al. (Index No. 654287/2025, Supreme Court, NY County) and Perez v. Brian Jones and AKAM Associates Inc. (defamation).

This relationship is disclosed on every page where The Langston is discussed. The data and methodology underlying CondosCoopsNYC are independent of Mr. Perez's litigation — every data point is derived from public records that anyone can verify.