AHS has a tradition of asking candidates running for the County Board to answer a set of questions related to affordable housing. We post candidate answers in full on our website and publicize them through local media and social media channels. Because we do not support individual political candidates, AHS does not evaluate or rate these responses.

AHS has a tradition of asking candidates running for the County Board to answer a set of questions related to affordable housing. We post candidate answers in full on our website and publicize them through local media and social media channels. Because we do not support individual political candidates, AHS does not evaluate or rate these responses.

In an April 9, 2021 letter, the Alliance for Housing Solutions—along with several other organizations and individuals—provided comments to Arlington County on the proposed FY 2022 budget.

What is “Missing Middle” housing—and is it really missing in Arlington? Five things you should know as the county gears up for a study this fall.

The Alliance for Housing Solutions recommended that Arlington County defer decisions about changes to income targeting for homeownership units under the Columbia Pike Neighborhoods Form Based Code (N-FBC) and include those decisions in the five-year update to the Affordable Housing Master Plan.

In a June 26 letter to Judge Newman, AHS asked for a moratorium on evictions in the 17th Judicial District until July 20. This would give households time to seek rental assistance through a program launched June 29.

Arlington County has called a Special Election (to be held on July 7, 2020) to fill the seat vacated by the tragic passing of Arlington County Board member Erik Gutshall. Candidates Bob Cambridge, Susan Cunningham, and Takis Karantonis answered three questions about their housing priorities.

Many valuable objectives will need to be compromised, at least temporarily, in order to meet our community’s most urgent needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. AHS supports the principles that guide the County Manager’s budget reformulation and many of the specific budget choices that flow from these principles and offers additional recommendations for changes if resources are available.

Champions of affordable housing barely had time to celebrate legislative and budgetary victories before COVID-19 swept Virginia into a state of emergency, leaving budget allocations up in the air and revealing gaps in State and local safety nets.

“Arlington’s loan fund is absolutely essential for building or preserving affordable housing in our competitive real estate environment.” —Walter D. Webdale, President and CEO, AHC, Inc.

AHS is urging Arlington County to invest $25 million in the Affordable Housing Investment Fund (AHIF) in Fiscal Year 2021. Join us in asking them to invest in Arlington’s affordability.

MLK Day of Service kicked off advocacy efforts, which will be focused on AHIF funding and missing middle housing during 2020.

All five of Arlington County’s Board Members spoke about affordable housing in their 2020 New Years addresses.

Changes to zoning policy for bonus density approved November 16 allow for greater flexibility in developing affordable housing in certain areas of the County.

Andrea Brennan, housing policy and development director for the Minneapolis, spoke at the Alliance For Housing Solutions’ annual Leckey Forum about how her city recently upended many of its housing regulations to make way for affordability and, most importantly, equity.

Housing Arlington recognizes that housing affordability is an issue across the spectrum of household income levels, including both low-income and middle-income households.

The confluence of housing demand and the focus and energy created by the arrival of Amazon and all of the associated businesses that will follow offers unprecedented opportunity for bold action on housing affordability.

County Board candidates John Vihstadt and Matt de Ferranti respond to questions from AHS on their approach to the County’s affordable housing crisis.

The 2018 Leckey Forum explored both the history of segregation in Arlington and solutions for making our neighborhoods more inclusive.

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.

A coalition of experts and advocates urges the County Board to pursue strategies to meet the production goals set out in Arlington's Affordable Housing Master Plan