💭"The DMV region is home to some of the wealthiest counties in the United States, but also has a long-standing challenge with inequality and a high cost of living that makes economic security and upward mobility challenging for many households...

💭"As we face a growing housing affordability crisis, it’s time to reframe the debate. Affordable housing is... infrastructure for economic vitality.

#ICYMI True Ground's annual event, Celebrate Home, is just 1 month away! Visit our website 👇 to grab your tickets or secure your sponsorship today. You won't want to miss this year's event as we honor Matt Birenbaum of AvalonBay Communities and gather regional housing leaders.

🎉At Housing&'s 2025 Housing Achievement Awards, Unity Homes at Ballston received recognition as the Best Large Affordable Housing Project. At True Ground, housing is just the beginning. 👉 Watch the video here: youtu.be/o-V2tTfo-iw?...

👏 Thank you to 100WomenStrong for supporting health initiatives at Loudoun View Senior Residences. The philanthropic support will assist in acquiring equipment, travel costs, and household cleaning assistance. 🤝 Partnerships like this helps communities thrive!

🎉 This year we opened our first community in the District, Riggs Crossing Senior Residences! Riggs Crossing empowers residents to age in place with dignity. Together, we are building a more inclusive future for DC's seniors. 👇 Watch our event highlight video below!

Wishing all the moms, nurturers, and caregivers who embody motherhood a very special day! 🌷 Your love and care fill homes with joy. #MothersDay #HappymothersDay #MoreThanHousing #AffordableHousing

💭"Housing is more than walls and roofs—it’s the foundation of daily life. And while it’s easy to measure units built or rents restricted, it’s much harder to measure something like belonging.

True Ground's annual Celebrate Home event will be this fall on October 23 🎉 The event gathers hundreds of real estate, housing, and nonprofit professionals for a fun, celebratory evening supporting our mission. Sponsorship opportunities are available now 👉ow.ly/CznY50VvHNO

🏗️ Construction update! Marbella Apartments Site A, which will be called Joe & Midge Wholey Legacy Homes to honor our founders, is coming along beautifully! Located in Rosslyn, this new, 234-unit community will feature picturesque views, outdoor courtyard, and solar panel energy.

Happy Earth Day 🌎 #DidYouKnow that three regional True Ground Communities feature solar panel energy: Ilda's Overlook, Riggs Crossing, and Wholey Legacy Homes (formerly Marbella)?

It's Volunteer Appreciation Week! 🙏 True Ground volunteers graciously give their time and talent so that our resident programs and communities across the region can thrive. #MondayMotivation #VolunteerAppreciation #MoreThanHousing #Volunteers

Come work with team True Ground - where we share a passionate dedication to providing quality housing and supportive services in the region 🏠 See current opportunities here 👉ow.ly/cs8i50VrGuK #TuesdayMotivation #JobOpportunity #MoreThanHousing

💭"At first glance, the right to housing is a pure 'positive' right, requiring government action rather than restraint.

For True Ground youth, Reading Rocks! 📖 Our annual Rock & Read event, held last month, encourages young learners to enjoy reading with fun literacy activities. Great job to all participating bookworms! #ReadingRocks #MoreThanHousing #LoveLiteracy #WednesdayWisdom

#ICYMI True Ground had successful 2024 thanks to our strong community of donors, partners, volunteers, and friends. Explore the stories, successes, and milestones that you made possible 👉truegroundhousing.or...#ICYMIAt a glance, we: 🟢Served 5,700+ residents

🌸🚗 Spring Cleaning with a Purpose! 🚗🌸 As you refresh and declutter this April, why not go big? If you have an unused or old car taking up space, consider donating it to True Ground Housing Partners!

💭"These costs can teach us important lessons about how to more efficiently use scarce subsidies to produce affordable housing – resulting in more units per dollar spent!

🐰Calling all volunteers! Join us for our upcoming Spring Fling Eggstravaganzas April 11-18 at select True Ground properties! Sign up today to help with food prep, bbq, springtime crafts, activities, set up, and breakdown 👉www.signupgenius.com...

🐰Calling all volunteers! Join us for our upcoming Spring Fling Eggstravaganzas April 11-18 at select True Ground properties! Sign up today to help with food prep, bbq, springtime crafts, activities, set up, and breakdown 👉www.signupgenius.com...

💭"I look at the industry right now and say there is an incredible need and all of us have to find ways to expand the available resources and deliver the affordable housing that is so needed." Read more about the current and future state of affordable housing from Novogradac in Tax Credit

💭"Only 35 affordable and available rental homes exist for every 100 extremely low-income renter households. Extremely low-income renters face a shortage in every state and major metropolitan area." Read more about the data from National Low Income Housing Coalition 👉 nlihc.org/gap?utm_so...)

🏗️"Last week, True Ground broke ground on a new affordable development together with project partners.

"Housing instability negatively affects childhood health... educational outcomes... and can harm student outcomes and economic prosperity." Stable, high-quality housing is a key part of True Ground's mission, and why we work diligently to keep residents and their families housed.

💭"It is no secret that housing costs have been a leading driver of economic anxiety across the U.S., particularly over the past five years... These shifts are... layered on top of existing housing shortages and operational stressors..." Read more from HPN 👉www.housingpartnersh...

💭"Arlington, Virginia, experienced the largest year-over-year increase in asking rents last month, with a 12.1% rise.

2024 was a big year for True Ground, and we're pleased to share our collective accomplishments with our community 👇Check out our impact report to discover how True Ground is growing, serving even more neighbors, and providing so much more than affordable homes. ow.ly/zrUr50VbOc0

#DidYouKnow about 15% of True Ground residents are aged 62 and above? Mature adults in Arlington recently enjoyed a computer skills course to brush up on their technology knowledge 💻 Many of our buildings also offer residents free highspeed wi-fi connectivity.

📣Calling all volunteers! Rock and Read, a read-a-thon for students across the region, is coming up on March 14th. Donate new or lightly used books or volunteer to read at the event today! www.signupgenius.com... #ReadingRocks #ChildLiteracy #MoreThanHousing #Volunteer #WednesdayWisdom

Governor Glenn Younkin announced more than $139 million in Affordable and Special Needs Housing (ASNH) loans for 41 projects across the Commonwealth of Virginia - including 2 Two Ground communities, Crystal House and The Exchange at Spring Hill Station 🏗️ Read more 👉

As Black History Month comes to a close, we reflect on how we can continue to build strong, supportive communities where everyone feels like they belong. Check out recommendations from our staff related to #BlackHistoryMonth and this year's theme, "African Americans and Labor." 👇

📣 Sharing our heartfelt thanks to this volunteer group from Fannie Mae! These hard-working volunteers painted our gym, stuffed eggs for upcoming Spring Fling events, and helped organize equipment. Thank you for giving your time and talent to True Ground!

💭"The rising cost of insurance presents a major challenge to the multifamily affordable housing sector.

True Ground Residents are spreading the love in honor of Valentines Day 💘 An intergenerational tradition at our communities, young residents deliver valentines to senior neighbors. Because at True Ground, its so much #MoreThanHousing!

💭"In a forthcoming randomized controlled trial study, [Urban Institute] finds that incorporating rental payment history data into existing credit scoring models has a positive, statistically significant effect on VantageScores, with a larger impact for consumers with no or low scores."

🏛️ Earlier this month, True Ground participated Virginia Housing Alliance Housing Advocacy day in Richmond. The Northern Virginia team included Kamilah McAfee of Wesley Housing, Luther Forbes of Central Virginia Housing Coalition, Haley Norris and Anthony Linares from True Ground.

Happy #ValentinesDay! 💘 This week, True Ground students learned to "start your own business" with chocolate covered strawberries. Each group received play money to calculate inventory and profit, then dipped and decorated their products! 🍓

We're celebrating Black History Month! Visit the link 👇 to get book, podcast, film, and activity recommendations from the True Ground staff. How are you celebrating this month? ow.ly/69IT50UV73P #BlackHistoryMonth #TrueGround #BlackHistory #MoreThanHousing

💭"Affordable housing addresses the foundational needs of those at the lowest income levels, while workforce housing ensures that middle-income earners remain integral parts of the community fabric." Learn more about the distinction between these two housing types from True Ground Director of

True Ground's Rock & Read event coming up on March 14th (9:30 am-4 pm) is a great way to promote literacy among young residents 📚 You can be part of Rock & Read by signing up to volunteer 👇 www.signupgenius.com... #MondayMotivation #ReadingRocks #ChildLiteracy #TrueGround #MoreThanHousing

At True Ground, we celebrate the diverse cultures around us. Residents rang in the year of the wood snake with crafts, festive food, and educational resources about the festival 🐍 Happy #LunarNewYear! #TrueGround #yearofthesnake #affordablehousing #FridayFeeling

As a charitable nonprofit, True Ground is led by a dedicated group of volunteer Board Members. In 2025, we offer our gratitude and well wishes to Randy Anderson and Matt Birenbaum, who have made a lasting impact on True Ground after serving on the board for a combined 30 years.

✍️True Ground's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest was held this month. Congratulations to this year's winners and kudos to all participating students who wrote about MLK Jr.'s life and legacy! #FridayFeeling #MLKDay #TrueGround #EssayContest #FlashbackFriday

Great news for affordable housing in Arlington - more than 470 affordable apartments receive funding approval from the County Board! 👏 Congrats to our colleagues at Affordable Homes & Communities (AHC)! Read more from @arlnow.bsky.social www.arlnow.com/2025/...

Want to dive deeper into the different types of affordable housing? Check out this great explainer from @shelterforce.bsky.social👇 shelterforce.org/202...

💭"The study found that the housing deficit will increase by more than two million more units in the next five years...

📅Today is Volunteer Arlington's 2025 MLK Day of Service! Thank you to the caring volunteers who generously give their time to community causes, including supporting affordable housing. #MLKDay is "a day on, not a day off!" volunteerarlington.o...

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, we're throwing it back to our 2024 #MLKDay Essay Contest! 📝Writers of the winning essays received a scholarship and award certificate to honor their achievement. The 2025 MLK Day Essay Contest is currently underway! 1/2

Sharing heartfelt thanks to hundreds of True Ground supporters and Inaugural Donors who contributed to our mission in 2024 🙏 Impactful opportunities, like our quinceañera celebration, are made possible with the support of our strong community. 1/2

Is staying active one of your 2025 resolutions? Health and wellness is an essential pillar of our Resident Services program here at True Ground. 🏀 Last year, we hosted our first Hoops Camp for young residents! 1/2