NAA and NMHC launched a national grassroots campaign effort called:
“Protect the Lease” Campaign on Tax Reform.  This article contains the background you need in order to let your elected Congresspersons and Senators that protecting tax programs for housing are necessary to maintain the stability of the rental marketplace.

Hoping to help some of the approximately 1,600 people seeking public housing or federal housing vouchers in Charlottesville, the city’s housing authority and local government are developing a locally funded housing voucher program.

Tech’s housing team is already prepping by turning some large double rooms into triple rooms, converting student lounges into bedrooms and giving resident advisors — who normally occupy single rooms — roommates, said Frank Shushok, Tech’s senior associate vice president for student affairs.

Lightfoot Development, LLC based in Gainesville, Va. has proposed building a residential and commercial development at the intersection of Lightfoot and Old Mooretown Roads, according to a proposal filed with York County’s Planning Commission.

Bit by bit, rebuild the area – sometimes called “St. Paul’s” – into mixed-income neighborhoods, where parks, gardens, shops and offices join 1,800 to 2,000 new homes, about a third of them set aside for people who get rental assistance. The overhaul could involve $1 billion in new private and public investment.

A rising player in the local real estate market has been quietly growing his holdings in a Northside neighborhood that’s increasingly on developers’ radars.

Spy Rock Real Estate recently wrapped up work on nearly two dozen apartment properties that made up the bulk of Billy Jefferson’s River City Renaissance portfolios, which Spy Rock and Boston-based Davis Cos. purchased for $37.35 million in a 2015 auction.

In one of the priciest local apartment deals in recent memory, a nearly 30-year-old complex near Short Pump surpassed the $50 million mark with its sale last week to a Southside Richmond-based buyer.

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The first time Amelia Howells ever wrote a check, she was 28 years old and standing in a Connecticut apartment leasing office, with no idea what to do.