Missing Middle Housing Study: Documents

• Study Scope, Charge & Timeline
• Study FAQs
• MMHS Community Partner Online Toolkit

Study Documents

Expanding Housing Choice: The Missing Middle Housing Study Phase 1 Report
Nov. 2021

• Final report(PDF, 38MB)
• View highlights and an overview presentation
• Presentation slides(PDF, 714KB)
• Commission review comment-response matrix(PDF, 210KB)

Virtual Q&A on Phase 1 Report
Sept. 28, 2021

• View a recording
• View key takeaways(PDF, 232KB)

Draft Phase 1 Report
Sept. – Nov. 2021

• Draft report(PDF, 26MB)
• Staff review with Commissions and Community Groups:
  • Sept. 27 – Long Range Planning Committee (Planning Commission)
  • Sept. 30 – Transportation Commission
  • Oct. 7 – Housing Commission
  • Oct. 12 – Civic Federation
  • Oct. 18 – Commission on Aging
  • Oct. 25 – Climate Change, Energy and Environment Commission (C2E2)
  • Oct. 27 – Joint Facilities Advisory Commission (JFAC)
  • Oct. 28 – Forestry and Natural Resources Commission (FNRC)

  Phase Ib: Housing Typologies Engagement
  May – June 2021

  • Presentation slides

  Phase Ia Community Engagement
  October 2020 – March 2021

  • Community Engagement Summary 
  • Research Compendium Online Engagement Responses

  Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #5
  Spanish-Language Session
  February 18, 2021

  • Presentation slides
  • Digital Whiteboards (Jamboards)

  Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #4
  For Zip Codes: 22203, 22205, 22201 & 22209
  February 4, 2021

  • View a recording
  • Presentation slides
  • Digital Whiteboards (Jamboards)

  Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #3
  For Zip Codes: 22204 & 22206
  February 3, 2021

  • View a recording
  • Presentation slides
  • Digital Whiteboards (Jamboards)

  Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #2
  For Zip Codes: 22205, 22207, 22209, 22201 & 22213
  February 2, 2021

  • View a recording
  • Presentation slides
  • Digital Whiteboards (Jamboards)

  Housing Arlington Listening Tour Stop #1
  For Zip Codes: 22202 & 22206
  January 27, 2021

  • View a recording
  • Presentation slides
  • Digital Whiteboards (Jamboards)

  Kick Off Event
  October 28, 2020

  • 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

  • View a recording of this event
  • Staff presentation on Research Compendium
  • Questions & answers

  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

  • Arlington County Missing Middle Image Gallery
  • Opticos Design Website on 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

  • Fall 2019 Community Conversation Key Takeaways
  • Housing Arlington Documents

  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)

  Regional Housing Supply and Affordability

  • Regional Map Resource

  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)