Mayor Alyia Gaskins and an editor at The Atlantic are scheduled to participate in a public discussion on affordable housing expansion and policies next week.
The discussion with Gaskins and the magazine’s Deputy Executive Editor, Yoni Appelbaum, will offer “timely insight into the policy choices and historical decisions that have shaped today’s [housing] crisis — and what leaders can do differently moving forward,” according to a release.
The free discussion begins at 6:30 p.m. next Monday at the Alexandria History Museum at the Lyceum (201 S. Washington Street). It will be moderated by Laura Dobbs, policy director of Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) of Virginia.
Appelbaum is the author of “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” which came out in February. The book “has garnered national attention for tracing how zoning and land-use decisions created today’s housing shortage,” according to the release.
The event comes shortly after the city of Alexandria won a nearly two-year lawsuit over its Zoning for Housing/Housing for All initiative last month. City leaders are also preparing a housing policy agenda for the 2026 General Assembly session, starting in January.
“The event brings together local action with national perspective at a critical moment for housing policy,” the release says.
The upcoming discussion is free to attend, but online registration is required.
