November 07, 2025 | Ryan Belmore | FFXNow
Multiple housing advocacy organizations submitted letters supporting the amendments. The Virginia Housing Alliance, Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance, and Coalition for Smarter Growth endorsed the proposal as addressing regional housing needs near transit.
“Between April 2024 and 2025, average home prices in Alexandria rose by 10.5 percent and in that time, over 93 percent of residents making below $50,000 per year are housing cost burdened,” wrote Becca Dedert of the Coalition for Smarter Growth.
The amendments include conditions requiring coordination between the three developments. The affordable housing site must be restricted by covenant, and the townhouse developer must provide gap funding if the affordable project hasn’t secured financing by completion of the townhouse development, according to proposed conditions.