Affordable Housing

Advisory Group Members & Charge

Advisory Group Members

J.J. Davis, Advisory Group Chair, UVA Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Jim Murray, Member, UVA BOV; Founder, Presidential Precinct; Managing Partner, Court Square Ventures
Danny Abramson, Member, UVAF Board of Directors; Principal, Abramson Properties
Robert Byron, Member, UVAF Board of Directors; Chairman & Co-Founder, Blue Vista Companies
Kevin Chavers, Member, UVAF Board of Directors
Harold Folley, Community Organizer, Legal Aid Justice Center; Liaison from President's Council on UVA-Community Partnerships
Lou Haddad, Member, UVA BOV; CEO/President, Armada Hoffler Properties
Alex Ikefuna, Interim Director of the Office of Community Solutions, City of Charlottesville
Jen Jacobs, Executive Director, Albemarle Housing Improvement Program
Joy Johnson, Founder and Chair, Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents
Louis Nelson, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach
Stacy Pethia, Principal Planner for Housing, Albemarle County
Tim Rose, Chief Executive Officer, UVAF

Advisory Group Charge

The Affordable Housing Advisory Group (“Advisory Group”) will serve as a sounding board to help advance the affordable housing work, a priority that was identified in the UVA-Community Working Group’s 2019 report. The Advisory Group will provide guidance and expertise, and will review the recommendations of an internal staff work team and their consultants to then bring forward to the Executive Sponsor, President Jim Ryan, on the following: 

- Community Engagement: Work with the project consultant and internal staff work team to create effective communication with the local community, as well as with housing advocacy organizations, to ensure ample input and transparency.

- Target Population: Consider UVA’s role in addressing local housing needs in a way that is complementary to, and not duplicative of, the work of existing housing organizations. 

- Development Strategy: Review and recommend proposals for an approach to support the development of approximately 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units over the next ten years. Consider how to partner with public/private sector entities.

UVA has established a goal to support the development of 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units over a decade on land in Charlottesville and/or Albemarle County that is owned by UVA or the UVA Foundation.

This timeline is for the Piedmont and Wertland & 10th Street sites.
A North Fork site timeline will be provided once rezoning is complete.

October 3, 2022 

• This August and September, a review committee that included community members along with UVA and UVA Foundation representatives thoroughly evaluated approximately 30 responses to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) issued in June for the Piedmont and Wertland & 10th Street sites.  

• Based on their evaluation of each respondent on the criteria outlined in the RFQ, which included qualifications and experience, project approach, and financial/transaction approach, the review committee recommended inviting three teams be invited to respond to a Request for Proposals (RFP) for each of these two sites.  

• The teams invited to respond to the RFP are (in alpha order):

  • Piedmont site 

    • Community Housing Partners (CHP) 

    • Enterprise Community Development (ECD) 

    • Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA) 

  • Wertland & 10th Streets site 

    • AHC

    • Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA) 

    • Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) 
       

• Responses to the RFP will be due later this year.  

• The RFQ for the North Fork site will be issued once the rezoning process – which is already in progress – for that property is completed.