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Friday, June 25, 2010

SPECIAL EDITION OF E-FFORDABLE.ORG

Governor's Housing Policy Committee Housing Survey
Comments Due Friday, July 9
On Friday, April 30, Governor McDonnell issued Executive Order 10, which established Virginia's first executive housing policy committee. This committee will guide the development of a statewide housing policy to be announced in the fall. 
 
The Governor's housing policy will address homelessness and affordable housing, as well as workforce housing, economic development, healthy neighborhoods, effective coordination with transportation, environmental issues and other housing-related opportunities.  The housing policy is being developed under the leadership of Bob Sledd, Senior Economic Advisor to the Governor and Chair of the Housing Policy Work Group and Housing Policy Advisory Committee. 
 
The Housing Policy Work Group held its first meeting on Thursday, June 17. As a first step, the Work Group is seeking public input in the form of suggestions for addressing critical housing issues.  Broad policy areas, first identified by the Virginia Housing Commission in 2006, provided the initial structure for discussions at the June 17 meeting.  Those discussions form the basis for the following survey which contains several questions that the public is being asked to address.

If you are a leader of an organization or association, please respond in a context best representing the views of your organization.  It is requested that you use the following link for organizational comments:
 
Organization Comments: http://www.pmg.vcu.edu/Housing/housing%20policy.html 
 
Additionally, the Work Group requests that this email be forwarded to individual members of organizations or associations so that they may respond as well, understanding that the nature of the responses, not the number of them, is most pertinent to their work.  A link to the survey site for general public comments is:
 
Public Comments: http://www.pmg.vcu.edu/Housing/housing%20policypublic.html
 
Both links ask for identical information.  Using the two links will help the Housing Policy Advisory Committee better understand viewpoints from around the state.

Comments should be entered no later than Friday, July 9, 2010. There will be a joint meeting of the Housing Policy Work Group and Governor’s Advisory Committee soon after the end of the survey period, to review the input and determine next steps.