(RECAP: Loudoun’s affordable housing problem is no secret. But the problem is partly self-inflicted. Loudoun’s Affordable Dwelling Unit (ADU) program sets price restrictions on 12.5 percent of units in certain rezoning requests for new developments, but the rules don’t line up with what is required for grants from VHDA or HUD. This means that the money for the housing programs only goes so far—and as anyone who has tried to rent or buy in Loudoun on a moderate income can tell you it doesn’t go far enough. Other jurisdictions can double their money or better by leveraging grant funds. In the past 10 years, VHDA has sent $358 million to Northern Virginia, but only five percent of that, under $18 million, has gone to Loudoun. All of that was to projects led by the non-profit Windy Hill Foundation outside the county’s ADU program. But an initiative introduced by Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe (R-Algonkian) directs the county staff to make quick-fix technical amendments to the county’s ADU ordinance to allow for state and federal grant money.)
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