In 2018, in response to our community’s growing housing needs, the Board of Supervisors directed Fairfax County’s Department of Housing and Community Development, with the assistance of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC), to produce a strategic plan to help address this need.

The Communitywide Housing Strategic Plan included two phases:

• Phase 1 of the Plan identified 25 short-term strategies that were implemented, without major policy or revenue impacts, to encourage and produce additional housing units within the county. The strategies, which were adopted in June 2018, took one to two years to implement.
   
• Phase 2 of the Plan included long-term strategies, tools, policies and resources that supported the development and preservation of housing that is affordable in our community. The Board of Supervisors created an Affordable Housing Resources Panel (AHRP) to support Phase 2 efforts and garner community input.