Charlottesville City Council will not officially see a draft of the next budget until March, but City Manager Sam Sanders spent some time on December 15 setting up the next round of requests for affordable housing funds.
“Our goal would be to begin to have conversations with you about prioritizing these considerations for the budget, if you would like to see them funded in the budget,” Sanders said.
Charlottesville City Council adopted an affordable housing plan in 2021 that called for a minimum of $10 million a year on programs, a goal that has been surpassed each subsequent year. A question in the next budget cycle will be whether council wants to increase the goal…