Led by a tight pack of runners, the Washington-Liberty Generals won a recent showcase cross-country meet.
The high-school team tallied 152 points to finish first in the girls elite race at the Oct. 19 Virginia Showcase meet in Mechanicsville, near Richmond.
The pickleball craze has reached Wakefield High School.
With 18 members and growing, pickleball has become the latest new club at the Arlington school. Spearheaded by senior and varsity tennis player Keyla Park Hernández and her father, Paul Joseph Park, who serves as the coach, the club meets Monday and Wednesday afternoons.
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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…)
Two Arlington zip codes saw some of Northern Virginia’s highest increases in home values over the past year, by one metric.
The new rankings, compiled by UrbanTurf, come as property values are continuing to rise both in Arlington and across the region. However, small data sets and variance in the types of properties sold may limit how much it’s possible to read into the numbers.
Langston Blvd is partially blocked due to a two-vehicle crash that left one car overturned on its roof.
The crash happened shortly after 2:15 p.m. at the intersection with the Spout Run Parkway and N. Kirkwood Road.
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.
Those hoping to be Arlington’s next County Board member each want to see the body updated to meet the needs of the 21st century.
And that could include expanding the number of Board members, carving the county into election districts or adding an elected chief executive with strong powers.
By BRIAN HOPMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The race for the White House tops the list of contests that Virginia voters will decide on Election Day.
It’s anyone’s guess how a stray chicken ended up at Reagan National Airport this past weekend.
The fowl was spotted on the departures level around 8 a.m. on Sunday, according to a social media post that has received over half a million views on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Ready to have your days filled with love and joy?
Meet Martini, the newest Adoptable Pet of the Week! This tan and white pup is currently in foster through the Animal Welfare League of Arlington.
Arlington County Board members on Saturday (Oct. 19) voted 4-1 to amend zoning rules allowing more people to occupy addiction-recovery residences in the community.
The new rules allow up to eight people by-right for recovery residences located in single-family neighborhoods. A local-government use permit will be required in other zoning areas or if more than eight occupants are sought.
