(RECAP: On Saturday, Virginia Organizing sponsored a panel discussion on affordable housing. About 40 people attended the session, held in the meeting room of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s headquarters on Caroline Street. “I’m sure, anecdotally, that most of us know it’s really tough to make ends meet in this area,” said Sarah Walsh, vice president of community impact at Rappahannock United Way. “We see the struggle and the difficulty in finding affordable housing.”)

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(RECAP: Nearly 300 affordable housing apartments in southern Chesterfield County will be revamped thanks to a collection of partners including a California-based company and the Colonial Heights Economic Development Authority. The Board of Supervisors endorsed the project in letters to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and the Virginia Housing Development Authority.)

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(RECAP: While outright homeownership increased among Baby Boomers after the last recession, they still lag previous generations, and may never catch up, according to the Fannie Mae Economic and Strategic Research Group’s latest Housing Insight Series. At one end of the spectrum, older generations such as Baby Boomers criticize Millennials for waiting longer than their generation to buy a home, but even Boomers are failing to keep up with the pace set by the generation before them.)

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