Housing

Fairfax County is dedicated to building and preserving safe, healthy neighborhoods and communities. Whether you are searching for affordable housing or emergency shelter, looking to improve the home you have, or looking for information on the zoning ordinance, you'll find resources in the following links about housing.

Affordable Housing: Rental & Homeownership

Blight

Learn about the blight abatement program, including how to report blight and a photo gallery of blight examples.

Code Enforcement Strike Team

Fairfax County is undertaking a countywide effort to crack down on illegal boarding houses

Emergency Shelters

Ending Homelessness

Homelessness exists in the Fairfax-Falls Church community and it comes in many faces (families, children, single adults, diverse populations, those with disabilities and mental illness) and in many places (shelters, transitional housing, apartments, motels, outdoors). Read about the 10-year plan to prevent and end homelessness.

Foreclosures

If you are a homeowner in foreclosure, a renter living in a property in foreclosure, or you want to complain about a foreclosed property, then Fairfax County can help.