Study Documents
Expanding Housing Choice: The Missing Middle Housing Study Phase 1 Report
Phase Ib: Housing Typologies Engagement
May – June 2021
- View an overview of missing middle housing typologies
- Presentation slides
- Housing Types Online Engagement Responses
Phase Ia Community Engagement
October 2020 – March 2021
Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #5
Spanish-Language Session
February 18, 2021
Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #4
For Zip Codes: 22203, 22205, 22201 & 22209
February 4, 2021
Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #3
For Zip Codes: 22204 & 22206
February 3, 2021
Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #2
For Zip Codes: 22205, 22207, 22209, 22201 & 22213
February 2, 2021
Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #1
For Zip Codes: 22202 & 22206
January 27, 2021
Kick Off Event
October 28, 2020
- View a recording
- Presentation slides
- Summary of polling responses
- Online Engagement Opportunity | en español
Community Partners Organizational Meeting
October 13, 2020
- View a recording of this meeting
- Agenda & Presentation
- Share: Study Overview
- Share: Study Kick Off Flyer for October 28 | en espanol
- Review: Research Compendium
- Review: FAQs: Missing Middle Housing Study Scope
- Review: Study Scope, Charge, and Timeline
- Report Back: Engagement Insight Form
County Board Work Session
September 22, 2020
- Study Scope, Charge, and Timeline
- Staff presentation on MMHS Scope
- View a recording of the work session
- Draft agenda for work session
Missing Middle Research: Ask the Authors Event
September 2, 2020
Missing Middle Housing Study Research Compendium
June – August 2020
- Missing Middle Housing Study: Research Compendium
- Bulletin 1 – Missing Middle Housing Study: A Stakeholder Guide
- Bulletin 2 – Housing Market Pressures
- Bulletin 3 – Arlington’s Existing Housing Choices
- Bulletin 4 – Arlington’s Land Use Policy and Zoning
- Bulletin 5 – Missing Middle Housing Study in Context
- Supplemental Resource – A History of Residential Development, Planning, and Zoning in Arlington County, Virginia
Draft Scope of Work for Review
January 2020
- Missing Middle Housing Study Draft Scope of Work
- Webinar on study background and Draft Scope of Work
- Comment and response matrix (Updated July 23)
- Staff review with Commissions and Advisory Boards:
- January 16 – Housing Commission
- January 22 – Long Range Planning Committee
- February 6 – Transportation Commission
- February 24 – Commission on Aging
- February 27 – Urban Forestry Commission
- CANCELED – March 12 – NCAC
- March 23 – E2C2
- TBD – County Board
- County Board review with Civic Associations and Community Groups (begun Feb. 2020)
- Contact CountyBoard@arlingtonva.us to schedule a meeting with your group
- Public feedback on Draft Scope of Work (raw data)
Housing Arlington and Missing Middle Update to the County Board
December 17, 2019
- Missing Middle Housing Study Framework
- Staff presentation
- Press Release: Arlington County to Begin Missing Middle Housing Study in 2020
Related Resources
Examples of Missing Middle Housing
Articles
- Going, Going…Gone? Escalating home prices have shut middle-class buyers out of Arlington’s real estate market. Is there a solution? (Alison Rice, Arlington Magazine, March/April 2021)
- Exclusive Communities Deepen Inequality in Every Metro Area (Jenny Schuetz of the Brookings Institution, July 16, 2020)
- “Gentle” density can save our neighborhoods (Alex Baca, Patrick McAnaney, & Jenny Schuetz of the Brookings Institution, Dec. 4, 2019)
Podcasts
- Housing Recovery (Freddie Mac Multifamily, Podcast, July 8, 2020)
- The Year of Housing Reform (Vox, “The Weeds” Podcast, Feb. 20, 2020)
Housing Arlington
Arlington Comprehensive Plan Elements & Updates
- Affordable Housing Master Plan
- Flood Resilient Arlington
- Forestry and Natural Resources Plan
- Historic Preservation Master Plan Update
Historic & Ongoing Racial Inequity
- Federal Housing Administration Map (1936)
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- Description of residential grades (from Housing Market Analysis, Washington, D.C., July 1937, FHA)
- Excerpts from the 1938 Federal Housing Administration Underwriting Manual
- Federal Housing Administration Underwriting Manual: Underwriting and Valuation Procedure under Title II of the National Housing Act (1938)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein, 2017)
- Rothstein on The Color of Law (Video, May 3, 2018)
- Segregated by Design (Richard Rothstein & Mark Lopez, Video, 2019)
- Zoning and Segregation in Virginia: Part I (McGuireWoods LLP and McGuireWoods Consulting, 2021)
County History
- A Guide to the African American Heritage of Arlington County, Virginia (John Liebertz, 2nd edition)
- My Halls Hill Family: More Than a Neighborhood (Wilma Jones, 2018)
- Race and Housing in Arlington (Alliance for Housing Solutions, Video, Oct. 3, 2020)
Zoning
- Zoning Matters: How Land Use Policies Shape Our Lives (Urban Institute, Video, June 12, 2019)
- How Communities Are Rethinking Zoning to Improve Housing Affordability and Access to Opportunity (Jorge González & Solomon Greene of the Urban Institute, June 12, 2019)