Policy Agenda

Homeowners should have the freedom to add a basement apartment, garage studio, or backyard cottage without begging permission from bureaucrats or angry neighbors, and churches sitting on acres of surface parking lots should be able to build townhomes or apartments to serve their communities and generate revenue for their missions. These common-sense changes require zero taxpayer dollars, yet they can deliver tens of thousands of new units in the exact places where people already want to live—near jobs, transit, and existing neighborhoods. AFP-Virginia is mobilizing homeowners, renters, small builders, and congregations across the Commonwealth to demand that lawmakers finally stop blocking abundance and start respecting private property rights as the fastest, fairest way to bring down costs.