Snapshot Of The Afffordable Housing In Rockville
Oct 8, 2010 15:21 - 2 Comments
Councilmember Bridget Newton requested information on the location of affordable housing in Rockville for last Monday’s Mayor and Council meeting. Staff prepared a table entitled Income-based Assisted Housing In Rockville. As there is always much discussion as to which neighborhoods have the most affordable housing, the information sheds light on the issue.
The chart contains information about the existing and planned housing in Rockville. Across the City a total of 2,262 units (of all types) currently exist.
Here a breakdown of the totals by Planning Areas, listed from areas with the least to the most:
Existing Number of Units
16 West End/Woodley G. E
42 Twinbrook Station
76 Southlawn
105 Lincoln Park
190 Hungerfor/Lynfield
204 Fallsgrove
344 Rockville Pike
377 King Farm
520 Town Center
388 City Wide (Housing Choice Vouchers and Rockville Housing Enterprise Scattered Sites)
Units In The Pipeline
86 Victory Court Senior Housing (# depends on financing)
106 Upper Rock
121 Town Center (KSI,Duball)
213 Twinbrook Station (units not formerly in a Planning Area yet)
The details of all the totals and types of housing can be found on the chart, however a description of Town Center Area might be helpful since it contains the most units.
Existing Town Center Units include:
166 Moderately Priced Dwelling Units including the Town Center Phase I development
225 HUD Assisted Project units including Bethany and Heritage Houses for the Elderly
60 Mixed Income Rental Units including Beall’s Grant
69 Housing Choice Vouchers which can be used for any rental unit within a specific price range.
Thanks and kudos to Councilmember Bridget Newton for requesting this information; to city staffs and Cindy Griffiths for the data-gathering, analysis, synthesis, and presentation; and to Rockville Central for making it available in one place, online, and in digestible form. An outstanding team effort. Rockville citizens are well served.
i reviewed this information prior to last week’s mayor and council meeting. is it fascinating that there are only 16 units in the west end? and yet, everyone screamed in horror that the area was overloaded and unfairly stuck with such units?
i am not sure that victory housing should be counted as all “income assisted.” my recollection is that just like beall’s grant ii, the building was to be a mix of low, moderate and market rate units.
also, victory was sued and the parties are awaiting a ruling. its future number of units may depend on less financing and entirely on the outcome of the suit.
what’s really sad is that this collection of information seemed simply like busy work for the city staff. what is the purpose?