Richmond Regional Housing Framework

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What is the Regional Housing Framework?

The Richmond Regional Housing Framework is an innovative approach for addressing our housing needs. Guided by a vision where everyone has a stable, healthy, and affordable place to call home—and bolstered by extensive research and community engagement—the Framework provides an action-oriented roadmap for solving, together, our region’s wide range of housing needs.

The Framework is organized around six goals. Each is focused on a major housing challenge in the region, and each is informed by community voices along with data that support key findings. These findings, in turn, lead to prioritized solutions for each goal. Individual solutions are specific policies and programs that will help accomplish the goals. We note where some solutions “crosscut” across multiple goals, because they help achieve multiple objectives.

The Framework is used by the Partnership for Housing Affordability, housing providers, localities, and other stakeholders to steadily address our unique and shared housing challenges by implementing many of the solutions already identified as well as others that will emerge in the future.

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Who is Part of this Regional Housing Framework?

This framework is for Chesterfield County, Hanover County, Henrico County, the City of Richmond, and the Town of Ashland. Partnership for Housing Affordability commits to work closely with local officials and others in these communities to implement solutions that will increase housing opportunities across our region.
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Why do we need a regional housing framework?

The Richmond region faces a variety of housing needs. Surging population, rising housing costs, stagnant incomes, and waning housing production characterize the obstacles facing urban, suburban, and rural localities.

We have common housing challenges to solve together; there is more that unites us than divides us. All must plan for the rapid wave of an older population as baby boomers and seniors age. All must address the current deficit—and future demand—for homes available to modest-income households looking to rent or own. And all must find innovative ways to preserve our existing housing stock to keep it accessible, resilient, and affordable for future generations. Accomplishing this will reap immediate and long-term quality of life benefits for everyone—but cross-jurisdictional and cross-sector collaboration is essential.

Our Vision:

Everyone in the Richmond region will have a stable,
healthy, and affordable place to call home.