CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville City Council will hear the 2026 Affordable Housing report during its Tuesday night meeting, its first since the opening of 2000 Holiday Drive last Tuesday, according to meeting agenda.

The meeting is set for Tuesday due to Labor Day falling on Monday. Madelyn Metzler, Housing Compliance Director, and James Freas, Deputy City Manager, will be presenting the report.

“In 2021, City Council adopted the City’s first Affordable Housing Plan (AHP), establishing a 10-year, $100 million local funding commitment and setting targets to expand affordable housing, preserve existing units, and stabilize households at risk of displacement,” the policy briefing said. “The AHP calls for ongoing updates to City Council and the public to track progress toward funding goals, income-level targeting guidelines, and housing production benchmarks.”

City Manager Sam Sanders made clear during last year’s affordable housing presentation, a month before Holiday Drive was even considered, the affordable housing and homelessness involves multiple city investments.

“We need a family-focused shelter facility to ensure family units remain intact. We need a facility to service specific needs of seniors experiencing homelessness which is a growing population by all accounts,” Sanders told City Council last year.

The city still has ownership of 405 Avon St. and 405 Levy St. purchased in Feb. 2024 that Sanders then said was space possible for some sort of undetermined homeless services facility.

That determination has still yet to be made.

The report will show five years into that 10-year $100 million investment. $65.8 million has already been committed, which is 66% of the goal.

$52.3 million of what will be $70 million is toward direct housing investments, $12.2 million is committed to what will be $20 million in tax relief and stability programs, and so far, $1.5 million of what will be $10 million is committed to administrative capacity.

“The city is ahead on direct housing investments and tax relief and stability programs, but behind on administrative capacity,” the report says.

The presentation will detail how the city has increased subsidized affordable units by 1100, with 1072 in the pipeline.

The report says 600 existing subsidized affordable units will be preserved with 530 already preserved.

It also mentions how the city will be able to stabilize between 1,600-2,200 owner and rental households annually, above the average 1,176 stabilized annually in past years.

The report is the sole topic of the afternoon session beginning at 4 p.m.

The consent agenda includes $2 million the city will turn over to the school system that it was holding pending state budget approval, and the schools intend to use that money toward fulfilling collective bargaining commitments.

Another item appropriates $750,000 received for the purchase of Clark Ct. by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation to the CIP.

Among action items, Council will begin consideration of awarding $55,000 from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant program to BEACON kitchen for, according to the policy briefing, “accessibility enhancements to the last remaining portion of the original building”.

“The BEACON Commercial Kitchen is a very successful initiative of the New Hill Development Corporation (“NHDC”), such that the space they have built is now being used by the beneficiaries of the city’s previous investment of CDBG funds on, at times, a 24-hour basis,” the briefing said. “The final stage of BEACON’s ambitious plans for this space focus on renovating a severely dilapidated store front at the front of the building to house a space in which BEACON clients can showcase their products and provide them for resale by BEACON staff.”

Nathan Smith, the CEO of Central Arizona Shelter Services, announced earlier in the week they are purchasing lunches and dinners from BEACON for residents at 2000 Holiday Drive.

Council will also consider awarding $25,000 in CDBG funds to IX Arts Foundation to improve accessibility to the IX Arts Park space.

“The IX Arts Foundation (IAF) is the primary steward of outdoor space located just south of the city’s historic Downtown Mall and adjacent to two newly redeveloped publicly supported housing developments, Kindlewood and Crescent Halls. IAF manages this space as the host site for multiple popular community activities, including a popular weekly Farmer’s Market, community concerts and events, and a public playspace, among others,” the policy briefing said. “While the space IAF manages is heavily utilized for these activities, it is not generally considered to be accessible, and several notable barriers exist that make accessing this space by mobility-impaired visitors challenging.”

Both of these are public hearings that must be held before council can approve those funds at the next meeting.

The same is for revisions to the City Code to strengthen the Police Civilian Oversight Board.

“The proposed revisions to City Code Chapter 2, Article XVI transition the Charlottesville Police Civilian Oversight Board (“PCOB”) from a model focused on independent investigations to a ‘Monitor, Audit, and Review’ model that strengthens oversight by aligning the Board’s authority with what it can legally and operationally deliver,” the policy briefing said.

Changes in state law regarding such boards evolved over time since the PCOB was first formed as the Police Civilian Review Board (PCRB), and city leadership had not kept up with the changes in the city code.

“Legal review by the City Attorney’s Office and by the Board’s independent counsel has since been completed,” the briefing said.  “Presented for Council’s consideration is the complete revision: a clean copy of the proposed ordinance, a redline against the last Council-approved version, and the matrix of revisions presented on May 18, 2026.”

The latter items are considered in the regular business sessions starting at 6:30 p.m.