Charlottesville City Council created an affordable housing fund in 2007 that has been used for a variety of projects over the years. Fourteen years later, another generation of elected officials adopted an affordable housing plan that made a moral commitment to spend $10 million a year to maintain and create new units.
In April 2022 when he was still deputy city manager, Sam Sanders presented Council with an audit of how the Charlottesville Affordable Housing Fund (CAHF) had been used to date. Here’s that story for some perspective.
The CAHF is one of several pools of funding used for housing purposes and the city is taking applications through November 21 for the next round…