Bill Text: VA HJR391 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commending Piedmont Housing Alliance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-07 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ391ER) [HJR391 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HJR391-Enrolled.html
WHEREAS, the mission of Piedmont Housing Alliance is to create affordable housing opportunities and foster community through education, lending, and equitable development; and
WHEREAS, Piedmont Housing Alliance has been the Charlottesville region's leading affordable housing organization and has worked to improve people's financial outcomes for more than 40 years; and
WHEREAS, Piedmont Housing Alliance's decades of experience include innovative approaches, deep community connections, and the essential leadership required to create bold solutions to address local housing shortages and injustices; and
WHEREAS, the board of Piedmont Housing Alliance intentionally consists of a genuinely diverse group of community members, including the organization's beneficiaries; and
WHEREAS, Piedmont Housing Alliance's work is grounded in the values of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and is deliberately reflective of the community served; and
WHEREAS, Piedmont Housing Alliance's housing counseling program creates ladders out of poverty with one-on-one coaching for home buying, credit improvement, debt reduction, savings programs, and eviction and foreclosure prevention; and
WHEREAS, Piedmont Housing Alliance has helped more than 1,000 first-time, aspiring homebuyers achieve homeownership and supported thousands more through financial counseling and eviction prevention; and
WHEREAS, in partnership with the Piedmont Community Land Trust, Piedmont Housing Alliance creates homeownership opportunities for low-income families in the costly Charlottesville housing market and has backed the development of more than 100 affordable for-sale homes; and
WHEREAS, since 1983, Piedmont Housing Alliance has financed the preservation and development of nearly 1,000 affordable rental homes and currently provides high-quality rental housing to more than 1,500 individuals in the greater Charlottesville region; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend Piedmont Housing Alliance for its legacy of service; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Piedmont Housing Alliance as an expression of the General Assembly's admiration for the organization's contributions to the Commonwealth.
