As Arlington prepares to complete Phase 2 of the Missing Middle Housing Study, AHS strongly supports the draft Framework under consideration.

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.

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.

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 County is taking seriously the recommendations from AHS to focus on urgent needs for affordable housing through the FY 2019 budget close-out and the FY 2021 budget guidance.