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From VPAP New Episode of Policy Matters: Your Window Into Virginia Politics with VPAP on VPM
Join VPAP’s Chris Piper and VPM’s Ben Dolle as they recap Virginia’s June primaries and VPAP's campaign finance resources that helped voters prepare. They dig into a trove of features on vpap.org: primary night results and interactive maps that break down votes by contest and district, plus helpful post-primary tools that let users explore results down to their ballot. You’ll also hear about new data on legislator stock holdings, paid conferences, and the top VaNews headlines covering government and politics across the commonwealth.
Housing Department to Move Headquarters to Virginia, Booting National Science Foundation
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced on Wednesday that it was moving its headquarters out of Washington and into a building in Alexandria, Va., already occupied by the National Science Foundation, with no clear plan in place for the foundation’s employees. It is the first major shift of a federal agency’s operations out of the capital under President Trump’s plans to relocate parts of the government. But the science foundation will need to move out before the housing agency moves in. Union representatives for the foundation’s employees said that more than 1,833 people with the agency work in the building, and that they did not know where those employees would go.
Arlington’s controversial ‘missing middle’ housing policy to stay in place following court ruling
The controversial saga of the "missing middle" housing policy continues in Arlington after a Virginia appeals court reversed and kicked a case back down to the lower court. Ultimately, developers can tear down a single-family home and replace it with multi-family homes, all in an attempt to expand access to affordable housing in Arlington County. This latest court ruling reverses a block on the missing middle, allowing development of multi-unit buildings to proceed—at least for now. Some say the latest court ruling is a big win for affordable housing and developers. But critics assert that homes built under the missing middle are far from affordable.
HUD announces relocation to National Science Foundation building in Alexandria
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will relocate its headquarters to the National Science Foundation (NSF) building in Alexandria, displacing approximately 1,800 NSF employees over the next two years, officials announced Wednesday. HUD Secretary Scott Turner, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and General Services Administration (GSA) Commissioner Michael Peters made the announcement at the NSF headquarters at 2415 Eisenhower Ave. on Wednesday (June 25), emphasizing taxpayer savings and improved working conditions for HUD employees.
Virginia appeals court says Arlington can end single-family-only zoning
An Arlington policy eliminating single-family-only zoning was effectively reinstated Tuesday by a Virginia panel of judges, who ruled that homeowners challenging the county over that effort in court should have also sued real estate developers who built projects under the zoning change. The ruling marks another development in a dizzying legal saga over the Northern Virginia county’s push for more “missing middle” housing, which is aimed at bringing more homes into a tight real estate market and eventually lowering costs in the expensive D.C. suburb.
VPAP Visual Three Leaders, Three Types of Votes
Each of the top three candidates in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor "won" among a different set of ballots. Levar Stoney won the most early in-person votes, Sen. Aaron Rouse won the most mail votes, and Sen. Ghazala Hashmi won the election day votes, the largest category of ballots.