I will have to find time to listen to this today (no longer available). Affordable housing does pose a great challenge to our region. More than likely however, more government involvement is not the answer. Government has no business attempting to legislate affordability.
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Houses 10 Miles from City Center?
So what's out there? These links will die soon, so here's a dropbox link with results of the search. Looking for homes in Charlottesville and Albemarle With at least 2 bedrooms At least 2 bathrooms 10-ish miles from my office near Charlottesville's Downtown Mall Under…
Housing has Challengers Everywhere
A few thoughts as I'm in Portland this week for a quasi-real estate conference. I said on Twitter Had an interesting conversation with my Lyft driver this morning. Topics he raised: - unsustainable housing market - gentrification - rental properties - unsat infrastructure - rising…
Who (What Age) is Moving to the Charlottesville – Albemarle Area
Sometimes, asking a simple question yields a tremendous response. A few weeks ago I was in a meeting in which a speaker noted that builders were building new homes primarily for the 55+ community (not explicitly 55+ communities; that's a different thing). Builders are building…
Wegmans Finally Coming to Charlottesville
Wegmans will be pushing dirt in March. The plan will go the to Albemarle County Architectural Review Board (never a non-daunting task) on Monday, Chris Stover at the Newsplex reports. I've had clients tell me that they wanted to move to the south side of…