Preservation continues to be an essential tool for addressing housing affordability, and increasingly a way to secure neighborhoods of opportunity for low-income households being priced-out of our high-cost localities. As […]
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NVAHA 15 – Accomplishment #5 (2019): NVAHA Hosts “Hybla Valley/Gum Springs Community Listening Session” to Create a Shared Vision for Northern Virginia’s Richmond Highway
The Embark Richmond Highway is a new land-use plan in Fairfax County that will support walking, biking and a bus rapid transit system on Richmond Highway. This plan will also […]
NVAHA 15 – Accomplishment #3 (2005, 2018): NVAHA Advocates for Financial Resources at the Local Level to Support Housing Production
NVAHA led two important advocacy initiatives to raise resources at the local level to support affordable housing production. The first was a 2005 campaign for the creation of an Affordable Housing […]
Health and Housing Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities in the Washington Region
The social determinants of health – defined by the World Health Organization as the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work, and age – significantly influence individuals’ health outcomes. As […]
NVAHA 15- Accomplishment #2 (2005-2010): NVAHA Takes a Seat at the Table to Shape the Future of Tysons Corner Urban Center
In 2004 the final Environmental Impact Statement for the Metrorail’s Silver Line was adopted, identifying four transit stations in Tysons. Also in that year, 20 proposals for redevelopment in Tysons […]
NVAHA 15 – Accomplishment #1 (2013 – 2014): NVAHA Publishes Two Reports that Provide Technical Assistance for Innovative Land Use and Other Financial Strategies to Support Housing Production
Affordable housing production across Northern Virginia jurisdictions continues to lag job growth and housing supply. What’s worse, the region has lost tens of thousands of market affordable units, and growth […]