CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Interfaith Movement Promoting Action by Congregations Together (IMPACT) has commitments from five out of the six Albemarle supervisors at its Tuesday night Nehemiah Action meeting at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center at CHS, a committee member said.
“It is based in the Old Testament in a sort of airing of grievances around areas of justice,” IMPACT affordable housing committee member John Frazee told Cville Right Now. “And we expect to have this opportunity to present to the decision makers, the people who have the ability to make a change in the way things are run and tell them what our research has told us about areas.”
In regard to affordable housing, Frazee said cities that have made impacts in affordable housing and the unhoused have committed at least $10 million a year to a trust fund, a fund the county created in 2019 but has never funded that much through a budget year…