Northern Virginia Regional Commission

Register for the 2025 Housing Symposium on Oct 6 w/24 speakers shaping housing’s future!

Co-hosts: @novaregion.bsky.social + GMU's Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship

Agenda highlights: Middle-income workforce housing, land use reform, economic vitality & more

More: novaregion.org/1479/Events

🏠 Can middle-income families still afford to live in Northern Virginia? Let’s find out — together at the 2025 Housing Symposium on Oct. 6 at GMU.

👉 Click the link to register and view the agenda.

#2025HousingSymposium #HousingSolutions #NOVAhousing #WorkforceHousing #AffordableHousing

September 2025 Update A story told with Adobe Express

Pleased to present our update for September. A little early to accommodate for the Labor Day holiday. new.express.adobe.com/webpage/xadM...

Economics Workforce Overall | Northern Virginia Regional Commission Northern Virginia income, economically disadvantage populations, workforce, and more demographics, data and graphs by region and county. Analyzed by the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC).

Data dashboard updated to reflect new unemployment data for July. No change in rate - 3.6%. It is ⏫ .8% from last July. www.novaregiondashboard.com/workforce

Busy week in the office at the Northern Virginia Regional Commission. Was honored to have @repvindman.bsky.social join us at our Community/Military Partnership meeting. Appreciate his active support of our military, veterans and military spouses.

Celebrating 20+ Years of Working with Our Military Partners Working to Ensure Military Readiness in the Region | Military and Community Working Together

NVRC is proud of its 20 years of working with the military, veterans and military spouses in our community. Pleased to share a summary of that work. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

Save the date as we work with our colleagues at George Mason University in co-hosting a symposium on #affordablehousing. More info on our web site. novaregion.org/1479/Events

Northern Virginia Clean Water Partners’ 2025 Annual Campaign Results Polluted stormwater runoff is the number one cause of poor water quality in Northern Virginia's waterways.

Great job by our team in compiling our 2025 Clean Water Partners report as part of our Only Rain campaign to help protect our drinking water supply. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

No filters on our storm drains. What goes down reaches our streams and the Chesapeake Watershed. Please be careful.

NVRC Announces Appointment of Craig Fifer as Executive Director The Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) has unanimously appointed Craig T. Fifer as its next Executive Director, at a special meeting on Aug. 12. Fifer will succeed Robert W. Lazaro Jr., who ...

NVRC appoints a new Executive Director upon the retirement of its current Executive Director. novaregion.org/CivicAlerts....

We ❤️ this project - utilizing fresh water mussels to improve water quality. Great job by of our team coordinating with our local government partner Prince William County and others. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

Unemployment data for NoVA is out.

June unemployment rate is 3.6% ⬆️ from 3.3% in May.

Unemployment rate is .9% ⬆️ from June 2024

Data on our dashboard. www.novaregiondashboard.com/workforce

Trail Care Academy: Trail Maintenance Funding 101 NVRC and Fina Trails held a webinar (July 29) to share funding opportunities for trail maintenance and improvement projects across Northern Virginia.

NVRC pleased to co-host webinar on #Trails Maintenance Funding 101. Thankful to Virginia DCR, the Sunflower Foundation and All Trails for sharing best practices, etc. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

NVRC Staff Presents at Resilient Virginia Conference NVRC staff were pleased to present on the Northern Virginia Flood Education and Outreach Framework at the Resilient Virginia conference on July 23rd.

Great job by our team presenting at the #Resilient Virginia conference sharing their expertise on how to build a #floodsmartNoVA. novaregion.substack.com/p/nvrc-staff...

Virginia Sales Tax Holiday | Virginia Tax Virginia's 3-Day Sales Tax Holiday | August 1-3, 2025  When is it?  August 1-3, 2025. The 3-day sales tax holiday starts the first Friday in August at 12:01 am and ends the following Sunday at 11:59 p...

Virginia sales tax free weekend begins 8/1 on school supplies, clothing, footwear, #hurricane & emergency preparedness products and ENERGY STAR & #Watersense products. Details: www.tax.virginia.gov/virginia-sal...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Trail Maintenance Funding 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Please join the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) and Fina Trails on July 29th for an informative and interactive webinar focused on funding opportunities for trail maintenance and improvem...

We are pleased to offer our second free Trail Care Academy webinar on Trail Maintenance Funding 101. Details with registration link. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Trump admin to proceed with groundbreaking flash flood risk database, reversing course after media reports | CNN The Trump administration has changed course and is moving ahead with work to develop a new database that would provide Americans with precise estimates of their flash flood risk in a warming world.

Good to see #NOAA moving forward to complete the work on this critical project. Important to both the public and private sector. www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/w...

Solarize NoVA Deadline Extended One Month Highlighting the Urgency for Solar Installations Before Federal Incentives Expire

Our #solar campaign has been extended by one-month. Great work by @LEAP_VA to arrange for an extension. Remember Investment Tax Credit ends this year. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

From 51 systems to 12,000: How Northern Virginia became a solar-ready region The Northern Virginia Regional Commission has earned the nation’s first regional SolSmart Platinum designation for solar-ready communities.

🎉 Congrats to @novaregion.bsky.social‬ —now the first regional gov in the U.S. (and the South!) to earn SolSmart Platinum!

We love seeing solar leadership like this in the CHESSA region, making clean energy more accessible for all. 🌞👏
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#CleanEnergy

Tuesday is the last day of our #solar campaign. 2025 is also last year to receive #investmenttaxcredit for solar as it was eliminated by Congress after this year. Sign up for free at www.solarizenova.org.

Our Senior Regional Demographer has updated our data dashboard with the latest unemployment data.

- Unemployment rate ⬆️ to 3.3% - up .9% from May 2024
- Number of unemployed persons ⬆️ 34.6% as compared to May 2024

This and other data can be found here: www.novaregiondashboard.com/workforce

NVRC Wins Two Flood Related Grants from Virginia DCR The Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) has been awarded $90,000 from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to implement a regional flood awareness and outreach campaign.

Great job by our team in securing two flood related grants from Virginia DCR We appreciate the partnership with the agency. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

Only Rain | LinkedIn Only Rain | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Let's work together to keep Northern Virginians healthy and safe by reducing pollution's reach to local waterways. | Stormwater runoff is the number one ca...

Pleased to report our regional #stormwater education program now has a presence on LinkedIn. Help us protect our streams, rivers and ultimately our drinking water supply. Follow us at www.linkedin.com/company/only...

NVRC Offices will be closed tomorrow in observance of Independence Day - Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend 🎇 - Happy Birthday America!

Proud of the work of our team examining expansion opportunities for the #Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail in #Loudoun County. We are #BetterTogether. @loudouncounty.bsky.social

July 2025 Update A story told with Adobe Express

Pleased to share our update for July. new.express.adobe.com/webpage/PzUO...

With congratulations and many thanks to our regional leaders who will serving as officers of the Commission for FY26. #Loudoun #PWC #Arlington

With many thanks to our team on arranging another informative webinar on #trail maintenance funding. open.substack.com/pub/novaregi...

NVRC offices will be closed tomorrow in observance of the #Juneteenth2025 holiday.

Conversion of Lorton landfill into Fairfax County’s largest solar array underway | FFXnow

Congratulations to our colleagues in @fairfaxcounty.gov on this #solar project on an old landfill. Project yields #sustainability, #resilience, #environmental and #costsavings benefits. www.ffxnow.com/2025/06/17/c...