(RECAP: Homebuilders are increasingly looking to farm-centered communities, also called “agrihoods,” as a way to draw in residents, according to MarketWatch. In these developments, farms aren’t razed to make way for housing, but instead are incorporated into neighborhoods, allowing residents to raise farm animals, grow food, reconnect with nature and be a part of a community. Houses built in these farm environments come at a premium, but, due to the lower density of homes and the sustainable features that homebuilders often include as standard.)

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(RECAP: Advocates for subsidized, low-income housing are excellent at calling for more money to build subsidized housing to offset high housing prices. But why are housing prices so high in the first place? The lack of market rate supply contributes to high prices that puts market rate housing out of reach, and as long as that problem goes unaddressed, more and more subsidies will need to be wrung out of funding sources already spread thin. Affordable housing advocates need to start calling for fewer rules and regulations that slow the production of market rate housing and add costs to subsidized housing as well.)

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(RECAP: Governor McAulifee recently issued a proclamation declaring June as Virginia Homeownership Month, recognizing the Virginia Housing Development Authority and its many partners’ contributions to this vital quality-of-life cornerstone.)

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