Apr 8, 2020 | Organizational Highlights
NVAHA organized the first ever “Northern Virginia Housing Opportunities Expo.” This event was hosted by NVAHA in cooperation with six jurisdictions including: the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church, Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudon Counties, and the Town of Herndon....
Apr 1, 2020 | Organizational Highlights
NVAHA collaborated with the Alliance to End Homelessness to convene a regional forum to address homelessness in Northern Virginia. Over 120 attendees from across Northern Virginia came together to identify shared challenges among jurisdictions and to provide...
Mar 25, 2020 | Organizational Highlights
NVAHA sponsored a half-day legislative forum to identify barriers to the development of affordable housing in our region. The forum brought together over 130 Northern Virginia legislators, housing and smart growth advocates, as well as business leaders. One of the key...
Mar 18, 2020 | Organizational Highlights
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 create more than 18,000 new housing units, 8.5 million square feet of nonresidential...
Mar 11, 2020 | Organizational Highlights
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 our region grows, our older, multifamily...
Mar 4, 2020 | Organizational Highlights
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 Trust Fund for Fairfax County. This campaign laid out the chronic...
