Abundant Housing Options

Providing housing options that meet people’s needs across a range of ages, incomes, and family sizes is essential to an inclusive and economically prosperous D.C. region. 

Building more housing near transit, expanding the variety of housing choices available, and preserving and building affordable housing will allow us to meet our region’s growing housing needs while creating sustainable, diverse, and thriving communities.

Allow a variety of housing options

The demand to live in walkable, transit-connected communities near Metro stations is high. This and recurring opposition to infill development have led to too little supply and high prices for homes near transit. 

Allowing a wider variety of housing options near transit and commercial corridors increases the supply of needed housing and will help bring down housing prices and create more equitable access for households of different incomes, ages, and family sizes.

Preserve and build affordable housing

Even with abundant housing options, additional policies are needed to help us bridge the gap where housing costs are too expensive for working families and people on fixed incomes. Preserving existing affordable housing and building new affordable housing ensures everyone has access to safe, affordable housing, provides economic opportunity for all, reduces the risk of displacement, and supports diverse, vibrant communities,

Latest Happenings


April update: Where key housing and transportation bills stand in Maryland’s General Assembly

April update: Where key housing and transportation bills stand in Maryland’s General Assembly

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In this year’s Maryland legislative session, CSG has helped get some promising housing and transportation bills through the Maryland House and Senate – and we’re still tracking others that may need a push. 
Chevy Chase MD Library

Take action: Support affordable housing (again!) at the Chevy Chase, MD Library

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In 2022, CSG, Montgomery for All, Action in Montgomery, and other organizations teamed up to rally for co-locating affordable housing with a redeveloped Chevy Chase Library—and won. Now, in 2026, we need to speak up once again.
🌸 All Things Montgomery: March 2026 🌸

🌸 All Things Montgomery: March 2026 🌸

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Spring is here! 🌸 And with it comes many upcoming opportunities to take action all over Montgomery County—some new, and some familiar.
Attention Ward 4: Dance Loft's affordable housing & arts project needs your help to win ANC 4E support 3/24

Attention Ward 4: Dance Loft’s affordable housing & arts project needs your help to win ANC 4E support 3/24

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Dance Loft on 14, approved three years ago, is an exciting Ward 4 mixed-use development that includes affordable housing, a performing arts center, retail space, and net-zero energy design. But it encountered delays due to the city’s unprecedented crisis in affordable housing funding.
Guest blog: Dance Loft on 14 survived DC’s affordable housing meltdown. ANC 4E shouldn’t let it die now.

Guest blog: Dance Loft on 14 survived DC’s affordable housing meltdown. ANC 4E shouldn’t let it die now.

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After three years of financial limbo caused by DC’s affordable housing funding crisis, Dance Loft on 14’s exciting mixed-use development in Ward 4 finally has a path forward. But it needs ANC 4E’s support to get there, and the commissioners who will decide its fate weren’t in office when the project was originally approved.