Priority Issues

Read about NVAR's work on several legislative and regulatory policy goals, including current priority issues, ongoing issues, standing Public Policy Positions, and recent Realtor® Advocacy Wins. Make your voice heard by submitting feedback for the annual NVAR Legislative Program, submitted every spring. 

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2024–2025 NVAR Legislative Agenda

Download the 2023-2024 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA (2)
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On-Going Issues

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NVAR Legislative Program

Legislative Program

Every spring, NVAR compiles legislative and regulatory policy goals for the coming year into a document called the NVAR Legislative Program.

The Legislative Program is developed over several months based on feedback given by NVAR members. The process begins in March, when NVAR committees and forums are asked to submit issues to the NVAR Public Policy Committee for consideration. Individual Realtors® may also submit issues to the committee. A task force researches these issues and recommends pertinent ones for inclusion in the Legislative Program.

Once a draft program has been developed, the Public Policy Committee reviews it and sends a final draft to NVAR’s Board of Directors for consideration. Following approval by the Board, NVAR forwards the program to the Virginia Association of Realtors® for inclusion in the statewide list of legislative priorities.

Your voice is important to us. If you have suggestions for items we should be looking into please email us at govaffairs@nvar.com OR fill out this quick form.

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Town Hall Notes Blog

FIVE FOR FRIDAY: A Weekly Roundup of Public Policy News

Mar 21, 2025, 11:39 by Hannah Jane Costilow
Welcome to FIVE FOR FRIDAY: A weekly roundup of public policy issues and headlines from around the Northern Virginia Region, the Commonwealth, and Capitol Hill.

by Danielle Finley, Associate Director of Political Engagement


 

Welcome to FIVE FOR FRIDAY: A weekly roundup of Public Policy Issues and Headlines. In this Issue: 1. Executive order targeting CDFI Fund looms over D.C.-area community lenders 2. Interior, HUD to offer federal lands to build affordable housing 3. Construction costs are an X-factor in real estate. Tariffs are entering the equation. 4. How Trump is providing an unexpected boost to the housing market 5. Youngkin kicks off bill signings with economic development. 

 

By ANA LUCIA MURILLO, Washington Business Journal 

A new executive order from President Donald Trump aims to slash the activities of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, a government corporation that spurs investment in low-income communities that have historically been excluded from traditional financial systems. 

 

By HEATHER RICHARDS, E&E News 

The Interior Department will work with the Department of Housing and Urban Department on determining which federal land can be tapped for affordable housing, the agencies’ two leaders said over the weekend. In an op-ed that ran Sunday in the Wall Street Journal, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the nation’s vast public lands should be part of solving the nation’s housing crisis. 

 

By ASHLEY FAHEY, Washington Business Journal  

Anticipation of price hikes because of newly imposed tariffs has already resulted in cost increases for materials commonly used in construction. 

 

By SAM SUTTON and KATY O’DONNELL, Politico 

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have been sliding below 7 percent over the last several weeks, a reflection of plunging economic sentiment that’s roiled Wall Street and scrambled investment plans. Applications for new mortgages shot up by more than 11 percent during the first week of March — a 31 percent improvement over the same period last year and just in time for the housing market’s spring buying season. Refinancings have surged from historic lows as homeowners capitalize on lower borrowing costs. 

 

By JAHD KHALIL, VPM  

Gov. Glenn Youngkin began rolling out his actions on this year’s statehouse legislation with signatures on economic development bills, combining the announcement with messaging aimed at those concerned with threats to jobs posed by changes by the federal government. ... Youngkin said he signed 180 bills including legislation that would provide funding for a semiconductor project in Manassas, a battery separator company in Danville and legislation that broadens the availability of economic development funding.