Arlington County Government, VA Most Recent, 5 Jun 2019

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From YouTube: Housing Arlington

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Learn all about the vision for Housing Arlington, an initiative that is grounded in equity, opportunity, stability and adaptability, then share your thoughts here: https://housing.arlingtonva.us/housing-arlington/housing-arlington-kick-off-online-feedback/

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Welcome to housing, Arlington kickoff of it, so the community kickoff is to explain housing Arlington to the community. We put a lot of thought into housing, Arlington and the kickoff is our opportunity to hear from you. Housing Arlington is the County Board initiative to address housing, affordability, challenges in the county, people.

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Who are doing all of the right things, but were nonetheless shut out of making this community their long-term home? And that's something that I feel mission driven to address in.

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A nutshell: housing Arlington is taking our existing tools and then looking new tools that we can expand. Affordability, both provide more affordable housing and more housing options that are affordable to the modern income. Folks, and that's really in essence, what housing Arlington is typically.

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New housing units are mostly geared towards high earning professionals and we have lots of programs that support our lowest income residents. But what's missing are opportunities for people who may be a part of the broad middle-class it could be schoolteachers.

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Would be firefighters, it could be office workers. It's a wide range of employees and households situation is that we think form this missing middle and the.

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Whole concept of the missing middle is that we're addressing the needs of middle-income earners while at the same time addressing the broad range of housing types that they may find useful for their their living situations. Under.

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The housing Arlington umbrella, there are six initiatives. It's got a land-use component which is looking at. How do we use our land use tools, our plans or zoning ordinances? It's our financing tools. How do we use those funds to leverage other resources? We've done really well with partnering, with nonprofits and nonprofits of partners with churches or community serving institutions, and so this initiative is going to expand that you know we think it's important for County employees if they want to live here close to their job. We want to help them.

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Do that, there's the condominium initiative and there's updating the affordable housing master plan. We think that's a pretty holistic set of initiatives and we really want to get a sense from the community in terms of what they, what their opinions are, what they think about these initiatives and how well they seem to fit the types of challenging situations they may have and.

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We also want to hear their ideas for solutions, because at the end of this initiative, we want to make sure that we're exploring every tool that we can, because this is not a problem, we're a modest effort is, is going to cut it. We're going to have to bring everything we have.

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