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Will housing win in November?
When all the polling is complete and the yard signs have gone away, when you stop receiving “time is running out!” text messages, the many campaigns of this election season will help to answer one big question: What will we do about the housing crisis? In Virginia, voters will get dozens of chances to answer […]
You can’t trickle down housing
Supply and demand: We often hear that this is the fundamental issue when it comes to affordable housing. If only we built more homes, meeting demand, then prices would fall. But like many simple stories, it’s more fiction than truth. Recently I was reminded of this when hearing about one of our clients at Housing […]
Fair housing is up to all of us
We all deserve the freedom to choose where we live. But even Virginians who have won a lottery struggle to find a way home. Last month, a Richmond mother — I’ll call her Michelle — called my colleagues at Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia (HOME of VA). She had recently given birth to twins. […]