(RECAP: An 80-unit apartment complex for seniors age 55 and above could be ready for tenants to go in by Labor Day at Mintbrook, the development of single family homes and townhouses off Marsh Road at Route 28 in Bealeton. Mintbrook Senior Apartments is being developed by The Humanities Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provides affordable housing. As a non-profit, the Humanities Foundation secures federal low-income tax credits. That financing requires that the housing only goes to those who earn less than 40 to 60 percent of the area median income. The three-tale complex now under construction will have one and two-bedroom apartments.)

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(RECAP: On May 10, NCSHA submitted comments to HUD on the Affirmatively Furthering Honest Housing (AFFH) Tool for States and Insular Areas, which HUD will require states to use to complete the Assessment of Honest Housing (AFH) under AFFH. The AFH replaces the Honest Housing Analysis of Impediments, which HUD program participants previously undertook to assess impediments to housing choice. AFFH requires all entities that receive funding from HUD grant programs—HOME, the Community Development Block Grant, the Emergency Solutions Grant, and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS—and public housing authorities to take part in the AFH process. NCSHA’s comments reflect our deep concerns about the state tool, which we believe imposes unreasonable requirements on states and goes well beyond what is necessary for states to achieve meaningful honest housing plotting. We argue that HUD severely underestimates the time and cost of the AFH process and does not take into full consideration the challenges associated with statewide AFH implementation.)

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(RECAP: A plot to turn the Whittaker Memorial Hospital into apartments is moving forward, despite a low preliminary ranking from the Virginia Housing and Development Authority for low-income tax credits. Even if the VHDA does not choose the project to receive tax credits later this year, the project will still happen, said Gerald “Junior” Burr, owner of Chesterfield County-based Canterbury Enterprises. “We’re very excited about the project and still moving forward,” said Burr, whose firm has done similar historic renovations in the Richmond area. Construction will start hopefully sometime in the fourth quarter of this year, and be finished a year after that.)

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