(RECAP: For years, Loudoun County has shut its own Affordable Dwelling Unit program out from the state and federal grants that most localities use to extend their workforce housing programs. The Board of Supervisors is beginning the process of opening the door to those grants. The problem lay in the regulations of the county ADU program. Developers who rezone land for large subdivisions (more than 50 units) are required by county zoning rules to contribute a certain number of units, distributed throughout the development, to the county ADU program to be rented or sold below market value. The requirements on those units conflict with standards set by VHDA and HUD. That means that, although developers may be required to build ADUs, those same rules prevent them from qualifying for VHDA and HUD grant funding.)

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