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Aug 29, 2024

NoVa residents feel pressure to pay high rent, mortgages

A spring survey showed more than half of residents polled in the greater Washington, D.C., area are concerned with making rent or mortgage payments in 2023, highlighting the lack of affordable housing in the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan area. Fifty-two percent of D.C., Maryland and Virginia residents polled by Gallup and the nonprofit Greater Washington […]

Feb 12, 2024

Bills to cap rent increases don’t advance this session

RICHMOND, Va. — State lawmakers did not advance legislation this session that aimed to slow rising rent prices, although affordable housing remains a big concern for constituents.   Two proposed bills would have allowed localities to adopt anti-rent gouging provisions, prevent landlords from increasing rent without at least two-month notice, and set an annual allowance […]

Photo of Pointe at River City apartments in eastern Henrico. Eviction filings continue to surpass pre-pandemic levels in all areas of Richmond City, except for the west end, according to a quarterly data report by RVA Eviction Lab. Photo by Darlene Johnson
Mar 3, 2023

Housing reform bills saw mixed success in General Assembly

Legislative efforts to tackle spiking eviction notices, housing and utility costs were mostly shot down during the Virginia General Assembly session. Almost 193,000 eviction filings have been made in Virginia since March 2020. The monthly-updated data comes from the Princeton Eviction Lab, a group that makes nationwide eviction data public to increase awareness about housing, […]

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