Are we committed enough to affordable housing in Arlington- When have we tried everything last?

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Permalink Reply by Jacomina de Regt on January 27, 2010 at 3:12pm

are you coming tomorrow night to VOICE core team to start work, among other things on the research team for affordable housing for Col Pike. You are the expert among us.

Permalink Reply by VOICE on July 26, 2011 at 5:41pm

Here is an article from the Arlington Now website, linking to the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance Report making points that Arlington County needs to set more aggressive targets to ensure affordable housing.

 

This is good background material to prepare for tomorrow night's (July 27th, 2011) meeting at UUCA on affordable housing.

 

Click here to go to the article.

 

We have also downloaded the report and uploaded it here to keep it for permanent reference  -- see the attachment.

Attachments:

• NVAH001PreservStudyWeb.pdf, 1.3 MB

Permalink Reply by jill herndon on July 26, 2011 at 6:27pm

Here is another file from the Alliance that defines some of the basic terms that my mind needs to start looking at this subject.  This file defines "affordable housing" for our area and in the larger NoVa.  I really like -- as a substitute assistant teacher in the elementary schools -- how they describe the effects of not having affordable housing. And as a taxpayer and hopefully steward of our environment, I appreciate what is said here about the social financial returns of subsidizing housing and the tax offset from creating new construction jobs. For anyone who has missed it the hardest hit segment of our population in this recession is in the construction industry.

Attachments:

• WhyInvestInAffordableHousingPart2.pdf, 194 KB

Permalink Reply by jill herndon on August 11, 2011 at 4:14pm

See the Affordable Housing Meeting Notes - July 2011 at the discussion link ed below.  If this material and the actions of our UUCA VOICE members to organize for more affordable housing in Arlington do interest you, then please go ahead and add yourself to the Group so you will be automatically kept in the loop.

 

http://www.uucava.org/group/voice/forum/topics/reports-from-the-voi...