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Strategy: Preserve and Increase Affordable Housing

Strategy #2 Preserve and Increase Affordable Housing Supply

Homeless FamilyA sufficient supply of affordable and permanent supportive housing that provides homes for everyone in the community is the essential and mandatory factor for ending homelessness in the Fairfax-Falls Church community.

The lack of affordable and diverse housing options has reached crisis proportions. This strategy targets the expansion of opportunities for housing.


OBJECTIVES

  • Create a dedicated funding source to spur development or subsidization of additional affordable housing and provide incentives for set-asides for homeless people in existing housing.

  • Give those with very low incomes priority for affordable housing options.

  • Remove barriers to building residential studio units to promote immediate building.

  • Convert time-limited transitional housing to permanent housing, as appropriate.

  • Develop more supportive housing for high-risk homeless people with disabilities, including both individuals and families.

  • Help faith communities actively share in developing more housing.

Strategy #1: Prevent Homelessness Due to Economic Crisis and/or Disability
Strategy #2: Preserve and Increase Affordable Housing Supply
Strategy #3: Deliver Services to Obtain and Maintain Stable Housing
Strategy #4: Create a Management System and Ensure Accountability