(RECAP: In Arlington’s intense housing market, a breakthrough project aims to provide housing-strapped veterans with an affordable place to live. But, the project has also illustrated how the county’s plotting process is limited by its reliance on sector plans, and brings forward some new thoughts to the ongoing conversation about parking.)
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(RECAP: Republican lawmakers have scuttled Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposal to ramp up state funding for affordable housing, a go that’s irked advocates hoping for more state help as Amazon starts to go into Arlington. GOP leaders in both the state Senate and House of Delegates have now place forward budget proposals without the $19.5 million spread across two years Northam had hoped to see flow into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund, a program offering low-interest loans for developers hoping to build reasonably priced housing.)
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(RECAP: The Trump administration’s still undisclosed plans to end the federal conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be a focus of upcoming confirmation hearings for the nominee of the federal agency overseeing the two government sponsored enterprises.)
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