Local governments around Greater Washington now plan to set targets for housing production over the next decade, as part of a regional initiative to build 320,000 new homes by 2030 and ease the region’s cost pressures.
Members of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments agreed Wednesday on a series of new goals related to housing affordability, pledging to heed the advice of researchers and advocates by committing to a major boost in construction to up the region’s housing supply.
