James City County commissioned this study to survey housing conditions and to quantify housing needs related to poor condition and lack of affordable and appropriate housing options. The Virginia Center for Housing Research (VCHR) at Virginia Tech and czb, LLC teamed up to collect data, conduct data analysis and provide strategy recommendations to County staff.
Read MorePeople Incorporated is the Community Action Agency for 13 counties and 3 cities in Virginia. As a part of its mandate, and in order to provide the best and most comprehensive anti-poverty services, the agency undertakes a major triennial community needs assessment. The findings from this assessment are used to inform the agency’s selection and delivery of services in each community it serves. People Incorporated hopes that the information in this report can also be used throughout Virginia by other non-profits and local governments to best serve the most disadvantaged members of our community.
Read MoreThe goals and purpose of the Study are to: 1) Identify housing needs and provide both a region-wide and locality-specific housing market analysis. 2) Identify housing supply and demand issues and opportunities within the region and within each of the four sub-geographies. 3) Advance economic development opportunities by addressing housing concerns. 4) Develop regional and locality-specific recommendations to address housing needs. 5) Engage stakeholders to help understand housing needs/challenges and create a shared understanding of that need.
Read MoreThis study was carried out to determine the extent of housing needs in Martinsville and Henry County with a focus on rental housing.
Read MoreThis report includes a variety of data sets related to demographics, economics and housing relative to Richlands, Virginia, with focus on the downtown commercial district, referred to as the Downtown Study Area (DSA) throughout the report. It includes housing gap estimates for rental housing at various income levels and provides housing plan recommendations that the authors believe will address housing issues and enable the Town of Richlands and Tazewell County to better to plan for the future.
Read MoreThe housing challenges confronting metropolitan Richmond are varied and complex, ranging from homelessness to affordable homeownership. The Partnership for Housing Affordability has led a collaborative effort to create a Regional Housing Framework to encourage consistent, collective focus in addressing the region’s shared housing challenges.
Read MoreThe League of Women Voters Virginia's Affordable Housing Committee conducted this study independently to help the LWV-VA arrive at a unanimous position on affordable housing. The study found high housing cost burden among very-low-income and extremely-low-income households, a severe shortage of rental units affordable to very-low-income and extremely-low-income households, minimum wages that could not support housing costs, and high rates of eviction in Virginia's poorest cities.
Read MorePairing affordable housing development with public transportation access is a best practice in planning and poverty deconcentration. This report evaluates how significantly this practice has been adopted by the affordable housing development industry and what room there is for improvement.
Read MoreRental Housing Discrimination on the Basis of Mental Disabilities: Results of Pilot Testing finds that when compared to people without mental disabilities, those persons who are living with mental disabilities receive fewer responses to their rental inquiries, are informed of fewer available units, and are less likely to be invited to contact the housing provider. In addition, HUD’s study found that they are less likely to be invited to tour an available unit, are more likely to be steered to a different unit than the one advertised, and are treated differently depending on their type of disability.
Read MoreA report by the National Housing Trust (NHT) and Energy Efficiency For All (EEFA) identifies 10 prominent strategies in use by state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) to reduce operating expenses in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) properties.
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