First stops
- Housing Information Center, 703-228-3765, helps those who need affordable housing
- At-a-glance statistics profile County population, employment, education, transportation, and other data.
- Arlington County Housing Division
Affordable housing basics
The following presentations composed a course on affordable housing that AHS organized for the fall 2010 session of the Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute.
- Housing 101, by Maureen Markham, Arlington County Housing Division download pdf file here or view in google docs
- Buchanan Gardens: A Case Study in Affordable Housing Development, by Nina Janopaul, Executive Director, Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing download pdf file here or view in google docs
- Affordable Housing in Arlington, by Barbara Favola, Arlington County Board, and Catherine Bucknam, AHC Director of Community Relations download powerpoint file here or view in google docs
- Housing the Region’s Future Workforce: Policy Challenges for Local Jurisdictions download pdf file here
The Case for Affordable Housing is a readable . . . and data-laden . . . research effort sponsored by the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) and posted here with their permission.
Arlington County plans and programs
- Arlington’s blueprint for developing affordable housing, preventing homelessness, ensuring fair housing, expanding economic opportunities, and improving neighborhoods is its five-year Consolidated Plan, 2011–2015. The Citizen Summary highlights the need and County initiatives to meet the crisis.
- The County sets affordable housing goals and targets and evaluates progress annually.
- The Housing Assistance Opportunities brochure explains how to apply for housing assistance, lists apartment complexes where rents are subsidized, and describes homeownership programs for low- and moderate-income households.
- Supportive housing is affordable housing combined with services for individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless who also have very low incomes and issues such as substance use, mental illness, other disabilities, or HIV/AIDS.
- Arlington’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, A Passageway Home, aims to ensure that no individual or family lacks access to decent, affordable housing. Based on the strategy of “housing first,” the plan focuses on prevention and rapidly moving people who become homeless into housing, with wraparound services to help them maintain it. Link here to the latest annual report on the plan.
