It might be a soggy Saturday, but the last weekend in April isn’t looking all bad.
Meteorologist Jackie Layer of DC News Now breaks down the forecast specifically for Arlington — including timing of the rain, potential storms, and a coming cooldown — in the video below.
A D.C. deli selling an array of New York-style foods and drinks is looking to come across the Potomac this summer.
Buffalo & Bergen hopes to open a fourth shop at 1028 N. Garfield Street in Clarendon, where UnCommon Luncheonette closed last fall. Inspired by soda shops in the Big Apple, the restaurant offers classic deli food, egg creams and cocktails.
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Question: How much of an impact do you think the ROAD to Housing Act will have on housing affordability in Arlington?
Answer: The Road to Housing Act became law ten days ago, with the stated goal of improving housing affordability in the United States.
I don’t see many policies in the Act that will improve affordability in the Arlington/Northern VA/DC Metro markets, outside of incentives for more affordable multi-family housing, but there are policies that should improve affordability in other markets that are more saturated with institutional investors that own swaths of single-family homes (e.g. Atlanta and Phoenix) and for manufactured/mobile homes.
The Local Conversation Needs to Change
If we are going to improve affordability in our market, most of the change has to be done locally/regionally, not nationally, but it requires a paradigm shift in how we discuss and solve for housing affordability.
Affordability Disconnect: Near Term Expectations Not Realistic
A disconnect between housing affordability expectations and reality prevents the right community and political conversations from happening. We expect/demand housing affordability immediately, ignoring the difficulty, and consequences, of achieving it that quickly.
Stable and healthy housing affordability is a long-term process requiring gradual change over a 10-15+ year period.
Demand-Side Solutions Won’t Work
Demand-side solutions, such as lower interest rates or easier financing, artificially inflate home values, as seen during the COVID-era housing boom and early 2000s. They are not a good long-term solution to affordability because they push values even higher (along with your property taxes) and affordability gets worse when rates/lending normalize and no longer provide artificially low monthly payments.
Supply-Side Solutions Are Not Immediate
Most policy discussions focus on supply-side solutions: building more/faster and denser housing (e.g. Arlington’s Missing Middle/Expanded Housing Option), incentivizing more existing home sales, or disincentivizing concentrated ownership by companies and individuals. Econ 101 tells us that more supply = lower prices = affordable housing (winner winner!).
This is the only path to stable, long-term housing affordability…BUT, at current interest rates, prices must drop 30-35% in the United States to become affordable, at current income levels. A 30-35% drop in home values would devastate the economy, so a supply-side solution won’t (shouldn’t) provide immediate affordability. (more…)
Free rides will be available throughout the D.C. area during Cinco de Mayo celebrations next month.
From 4 p.m. Monday, May 5 until 4 a.m. Tuesday, May 6, residents age 21 and over will be able to receive free Lyft rides worth up to $15. A promotional code will be published at 3 p.m. on www.SoberRide.com.
A two-year-old lab named Jazzy, who loves snuggling on the couch and sharing loving glances with her owners, is available for adoption at Lucky Dog Animal Rescue.
She’s a small lab mix — around 35 pounds — and is absolutely as adorable as she is friendly.
Join the Rosslyn BID and Arlington Arts at the 34th Rosslyn Jazz Fest 2026 featuring live jazz, food trucks, local vendors, and family-friendly activities in the heart of Rosslyn! This year’s lineup is bringing a diverse mix of performers and bands redefining the jazz music genre including Plena Libre, Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars, Parlor Greens, and Dogo du Togo & the Alagaa Beat Band.
A different kind of exercise is coming to the site of a longtime martial arts studio in Clarendon.
Club Pilates plans to open in late July at 3000 Washington Blvd, joining the neighborhood’s growing landscape of gyms and wellness industry businesses. It replaces Urban Kempo, a martial arts studio that closed last year after a decade in business.
Spring storm season is around the corner, bringing windy, rainy nights and potentially, roof damage. Fortunately, there’s several highly rated roofing companies in and around Arlington, providing top-notch repair services, cleaning and more.
Here are the nominees for “Top Roofing Company in Arlington” as part of our ARLnow Readers’ Choice awards.
Did we miss your go-to service provider? Write them in!
Voting will close in two weeks.
Voting for Best Bike Shop in Arlington is still taking place. Be sure to cast your vote before voting closes next Friday at 9 a.m.
Two weeks ago, we voted on the “Top Gutter Cleaning or Installation in Arlington.” The results are now official:
1. The Brothers That Just Do Gutters
2. German Fuentes Gutter Cleaning
3. Ned Stevens Gutter Cleaning
Customers are flocking to Department of Motor Vehicles locations across the country, including in Arlington, as a deadline to get REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses approaches.
Arlington’s two service centers were recently singled out by DMV officials as areas where customer traffic had increased significantly in the run-up to the May 7 deadline changing access rules for airline flights and government buildings.
A developer’s plans to add 73 units while retaining the existing Shirlington House apartment building have cruised relatively unscathed through the county’s site-plan review process.
“It’s a good project,” James Lantelme, a member of the Planning Commission who serves on the panel evaluating the proposal, said on Monday.
New Nepalese Eatery Profiled — “Restaurateur Keshar Jarga Magar, along with his brother Dip Jarga Magar and business partner Tuk Prasad Gurung, opened Himalayan Wild Yak in Ashburn in 2022 with the mission of introducing diners to Nepalese cooking. Three years later, the trio’s second location, stationed in Ballston, is open with the same goal.” [Washingtonian]
Voting Starts Soon for Va. Races — “Early voting begins May 2. There will not be a primary in the governor’s race, as both parties have already selected their nominees — Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger. Most of the action in the primaries will focus on the race for lieutenant governor. Six candidates are competing on the Democratic side.” [WTOP]
Diverse GOP Statewide Ticket — “The Republican ticket for Virginia’s statewide races this year is set. It’s a notably diverse roster of candidates for the Old Dominion. Richmond conservative talk show host John Reid secured the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor Monday after the only other candidate dropped out… Reid is the Commonwealth’s first openly gay nominee for statewide office of any party.” [Axios]
It’s Friday — Expect mostly cloudy skies with a high near 79 and calm winds shifting to the south at 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Friday night, there’s a 70% chance of showers, mainly after 8pm, with temperatures dropping to around 64. Winds will be from the southeast at 8 mph, and new precipitation amounts may be less than a tenth of an inch. [NWS]
