THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITY
Is the world you live in the world you were told you'd get?
Governance fails. Sometimes by design. Sometimes by apathy. The result is the same: the people the institutions are supposed to serve lose. TASFGA is not left, not right, not loyal to anyone. We are results-oriented. We find the gap, write the fix, and verify it lands in reality — or we name the people who refused to let it.
THE PREMISE
If the laws on the books worked, your block would look different.
If the agencies enforced what they wrote, your rent check would buy more.
If the boards were accountable, your building wouldn't vote in the dark.
If the votes in the chamber matched the promises on the podium, you wouldn't be reading this.
The gap between the world we were promised and the world we inherited is not an accident. Closing it is engineering, not ideology.
THE LOOP
Identify. Propose. Verify.
Most reform work stops at the white paper or the bill introduction. TASFGA runs the full accountability loop: we find the gap, propose a concrete fix, and track whether anyone actually did it — year after year, on the record.
Find the gap
Original research documenting where law, oversight, and enforcement break down — legislative, regulatory, corporate, municipal, or private governance. Primary sources only.
Our research → Step 2 · ProposeWrite the fix
Model standards, model bills, disclosure templates, and codes of conduct — specific enough to adopt, public enough to critique, versioned so progress is measurable.
The proposals → Step 3 · VerifyTrack what got done
Public scorecards on legislators, agencies, boards, and firms. Did the bill pass? Did the rule get enforced? Did conduct change? Paper reform is not reform.
The scorecards → GovernanceAccountability Council
Independent panel of advocates, former public servants, attorneys, and journalists. Reviews complaints. Sets priorities. Holds TASFGA to its own standard.
Meet the Council →FOCUS AREAS
We start where the gap is biggest.
TASFGA's founding focus is residential community governance — condominium boards, cooperative boards, HOAs, and the managing-agent industry. It is the clearest test case of the loop we're building: a $60B+ sector, sixty years of regulatory failure, primary sources everywhere, and a million New Yorkers alone under governance structures with zero accountability.
Focus areas under development:
- Residential community governance (active) — condos, co-ops, HOAs, managing-agent industry.
- Legislative bodies — state assembly, senate, Congress, city councils that write law.
- Executive offices — mayors, governors, the promises-vs-outcomes ledger.
- Public agencies & rulemaking — the operational reality of law on the books.
- Municipal governance — councils, zoning, BIDs, housing authorities.
- Hospital & health boards — fiduciary duty over patient lives.
- Corporate & institutional boards — where private codes exceed private practice.
- Licensing & self-regulating bodies — the industries that regulate themselves.
IN THE FIELD
CondosCoopsNYC — Focus Area 1 in practice.
Our first focus area is published at condoscoopsnyc.org: building-by-building, firm-by-firm documentation of governance failure across New York City's condominium and cooperative housing. It's the proof-of-concept for everything TASFGA intends to do across the other focus areas.
See Focus Area 1 →WHAT YOU GET
The question that cost you $3,000 last time? Ask us instead.
When a unit owner, a journalist, or a councilmember needs to know how a building, a board, a firm, an agency, or an elected official really operates, the usual options are expensive and slow: retain a lawyer at $500–$3,000 a question, or spend weeks pulling public records yourself. TASFGA publishes the answer. Primary sources, organized. Reviewed by counsel before release. Available to members at a fraction of the cost of a single billable hour.
TRADITIONAL PATH
$500 – $3,000
per question, per lawyer, per time
- Retain counsel for each new question
- Pay for research you can't reuse
- Wait days for an answer you paid hourly for
- Get one opinion, siloed to your situation
TASFGA MEMBER ACCESS
From $75/yr
research library + free lookups included, deep research on demand
- Membership — full research library, Monthly Governance Brief, case-study archive
- Quick lookups — 1 free/month (Individual) or 2/month (Contributor), staff-researched
- Deep research — $150/question for members, $300 for non-members, counsel-reviewed
- Every answer backed by primary-source citation
Not legal advice. Governance profiles and Ask-a-TASFGA answers are research. Submitting a question does not create an attorney–client relationship. For case-specific legal strategy, consult an attorney — but come into that conversation already knowing what the public record actually says. Full scope, SLA, and refusal policy →
MEMBERSHIP
Stand with the institution that runs the full accountability loop.
Individual
$75 / yr
Unit owners, residents, concerned citizens.
- Full research library
- Monthly Governance Brief
- Member-only case-study archive
- 1 free quick lookup per month
- Deep research: $150/question (50% off non-member rate)
Contributor
$250 / yr
Board members, coalition leaders, journalists, researchers.
- Everything in Individual
- 2 free quick lookups per month
- Deep research: $150/question, priority turnaround
- Direct advisory line
- Early access to model documents
- Accountability Council submission priority
Institutional
Custom
Universities, foundations, government agencies, media.
- Volume deep-research pricing
- Custom turnaround SLA
- Data licensing
- Briefings & research partnerships
- Custom reports