Five Ways Housing Affordability Affects Local Businesses

 Five Ways Housing Affordability Affects Local Businesses

Like bridges and roads, affordable housing is an investment in a community’s infrastructure. Along with numerous social benefits, housing affordability supports diverse jobs and wage levels and also attracts and retains workers – critical to a community’s long-term economic success.

Confronting Diversity: Leckey Forum Videos

Confronting Diversity: Leckey Forum Videos

Arlington County’s vision is to be a “diverse and inclusive world-class urban community.” The 2018 Leckey Forum explored the challenges to achieving this vision by exploring the historical context of racial segregation and current policies that keep neighborhoods from being more diverse.

Housing Segregation: A Vestige of the Past?

The Fair Housing Act was passed fifty years ago, yet America’s neighborhoods remain deeply segregated along racial lines. Author Richard Rothstein argues that this divide is the direct result of government policies, some of which are relegated to the past and others that are still in place today.


Redevelopment of Former Red Cross Headquarters to Create Affordable Housing

Rendering of Proposed Trenton Street Apartments

Rendering of Proposed Trenton Street Apartments

In a move that will add much needed affordable housing stock to Arlington's Metro corridors, the County Board approved a site plan and rezoning request that would allow Wesley Housing Development Corporation to redevelop a former Red Cross Headquarters site, fronting on Rt. 50, into mixed-income affordable housing. 

According to an Arlington County press release, the Buckingham neighborhood property situated at 20 N. Thomas street, 15 and 19 N. Trenton, and 4333 Arlington Boulevard will be redeveloped to include 97 affordable multifamily units that meet green and energy efficiency standards, 19 townhomes, and the preservation of the adjacent Whitefield Commons garden apartments.

Townhome Rendering

Townhome Rendering