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ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jun 16, 2025

By ARLnow.com

Good Monday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.

🕗 News recap

The following articles were published earlier today — Jun 16, 2025.

📅 Upcoming events

Here is what’s going on Tuesday in Arlington, from our event calendar.

⛈️ Tuesday’s forecast

Expect scattered rain until 2pm followed by showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm, while patchy fog clears before 9am. The mostly cloudy day will have a high near 82, with a south wind around 6 mph and a 30% chance of precipitation. For Tuesday night, anticipate scattered showers and thunderstorms, a mostly cloudy sky, a low around 71, a southeast wind of 3 to 5 mph, and a 50% chance of precipitation. See more from Weather.gov.

💡 Quote of the Day

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

🌅 Tonight’s sunset

The MonumentCam screenshot above is used with permission of the Trust for the National Mall and courtesy of EarthCam.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to discuss the day’s happenings in the comments.

News

Arlington YMCA still plans to redevelop but needs a new developer

By Dan Egitto
The YMCA at 3422 13th Street N. (staff photo)

The Arlington YMCA is still pursuing redevelopment plans, but the loss of a developer and tough market conditions have pushed back the timeline.

Facing concerns from some patrons about ongoing maintenance issues, the YMCA told ARLnow that it is working on improvements to the Virginia Square facility and hoping to receive county approval for redevelopment in early 2027.

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Just Reduced Properties in Arlington: May 20, 2026

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As of May 18, there are 175 detached homes, 41 townhouses and 249 condos for sale throughout Arlington County. In total, 50 homes experienced a price reduction in the past week, including:

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4715 38TH Street N

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News

Nonprofit: Affordable housing crisis deepening in N. Va.

By ARLnow.com
A set of garden apartments in Westover neighborhoods (file photo)

A local nonprofit is sounding the alarm about a worsening affordable housing crisis that’s driving homelessness to new heights across Northern Virginia.

Falls Church-based Homestretch released new data showing that finding affordable housing in the region has become increasingly difficult for many residents.

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News

New emergency assistance fund for fired federal workers launches in Arlington

By Dan Egitto
Job seekers at a Crystal City career fair (file photo by Jay Westcott)

An Arlington nonprofit has launched a new emergency assistance fund for out-of-work federal employees.

Arlington Thrive’s new Federal Worker Resilience Fund, which provides direct aid for rent, utility payments and other essentials, is meant to support fired and furloughed federal workers “whose jobs were affected by recent policy changes.”

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News

Two-bedroom apartment rentals now top $3,000/mo across Arlington

By Scott McCaffrey
The Commodore apartments in Courthouse, November 2024 (staff photo by Katie Taranto)

It now costs a median $36,000 per year to rent a two-bedroom apartment across Arlington County.

The median rental price in May stood at $2,488 for one-bedroom units and $3,006 for two bedrooms, according to figures reported by Apartment List.

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News

D.C. soul food chain gets new life at ghost kitchen near Shirlington

By Vernon Miles
Crab cake sandwich at NuVegan (staff photo by Vernon Miles)

A vegan soul food institution is living on just east of Shirlington, even after its original location in D.C. closed last year.

NuVegan Cafe — formerly Everlasting Life — used to attract long lines in Columbia Heights, with locals and visitors alike lining up to get soul food from an entirely vegan menu.

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Schools

Local LGBTQ+ advocates challenge state policy on reporting students’ genders

By Scott McCaffrey
Arlington is nonbinary button (photo courtesy D. Taylor Reich)

An advocacy group is calling on Arlington school officials to push back on a new state policy on reporting students as either male or female.

On May 12, the Virginia Department of Education’s policy on records collection removed an option to designate some students as “other” rather than male or female.

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News

Democrats squaring off in Virginia primaries say one name a lot: Trump

By The Associated Press
Voting underway at Walter Reed Community Center in June 2023 (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia Democrats are battling Tuesday to be their party’s nominee for attorney general. Yet, the name mentioned most in their campaigns is not that of their opponent, but rather a man who lives just over the Arlington Memorial Bridge: President Donald Trump.

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News

County negotiations on development projects need more transparency, group argues

By Scott McCaffrey
Civic Federation leaders Nicholas Giacobbe and John Ford (staff photo by Scott McCaffrey)

The Arlington County Civic Federation wants county leaders to be more transparent when negotiating with developers on community benefits.

In a comprehensive resolution on planning and zoning issues, delegates overwhelmingly voted last week to ask for a “clear, written, transparent process” for determining what benefits the county seeks when developers pursue rezoning and land-use changes.

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