In the past six months, the city of Charlottesville has made changes to the way affordable housing projects are funded in the city. Every fall, the city will send out a Notice of Funding Availability announcing the different buckets of money available, including the Charlottesville Affordable Housing Fund. The CAHF was created in the late…
Tonight Council will take up the second reading of a plan to give $5 million to the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority to acquire a large amount of housing that is currently rented to people with incomes much lower than the area median income. The purchase price for the units currently owned by Woodard Properties…
Community members who would like to apply for a chance to receive a housing voucher offered by Albemarle County’s Department of Social Services have until next Thursday to do so. Waiting lists are open for housing choices vouchers, Treesdale Park, Crozet Meadows, and Scottsville School Apartments. “Once the application period closes, a fixed number of…
The Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter for April 4, 2023 had several items from the report from the interim City Manager but here are some more odds and ends from the written report:
A very small window has opened for people who would like to receive a housing voucher issued by the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority. “Applications are accepted online at portal.cvillerha.com and people can contact CRHA with questions at 434-422-9218,” said City Councilor Michael Payne, a voting member of the CRHA’s Board of Commissioners.
The Albemarle Board of Supervisors has approved a rezoning to allow 525 units to be constructed on undeveloped land off of Old Ivy Road, despite concerns from neighbors that the project would overwhelm the transportation network. The Virginia Department of Transportation is undertaking a “pipeline” study of the U.S. 250 corridor west of Charlottesville that…
Church solar panels, tax change legislation fails, and MPO tried again for funding for pedestrian bridge You can learn a lot about what’s happening in the overall community by reviewing the first several minutes of one of their regular meetings of the Charlottesville Planning Commission. The following all comes from this last Tuesday’s event. Commissioner…
The Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopted a plan called Housing Albemarle in July 2021 that is intended to increase the number of housing units in the county. That came with a goal of requiring a minimum of 20 percent of new units to qualify as “affordable.” That’s up from 15 percent in the current policy which applies…
The Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors has reported fewer sales in the fourth quarter of 2022. “There were 917 homes sold in the CAAR market in the fourth quarter of 2022, which is a 25 percent reduction in sales from this time last year, or 311 fewer sales,” reads one of the takeaways from the…
The University of Virginia has asked a total of five entities to respond to requests for proposals to develop two sites for housing units that will be rented or sold to households with qualified incomes. “After careful evaluation of each respondent on the criteria outlined in the [Request for Qualifications], which included qualifications and experience, project…