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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP1000\">1000<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":63212,"section_number":"30-261","catch_line":"Powers and duties","order_by":null,"url":"\/30-261\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":200291,"object_type":"law","relational_id":83445,"identifier":"30-257","token":"30\/38\/30-257","url":"\/30-257\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/30-257\/","token":"30\/38\/30-257","dublin_core":{"Title":"Virginia Housing Commission; purpose","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 30-257","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The Virginia Housing Commission (the Commission) is established in the legislative branch of state government. The purpose of the Commission is to study and provide recommendations to ensure and foster the availability of safe, sound affordable housing for every Virginian. The Commission may also study and make recommendations relating to such other housing, real property, and community development <span class=\"dictionary\">issues<\/span> as it may be called upon to consider or as may be desirable.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nVIRGINIA HOUSING COMMISSION; PURPOSE (\u00a7 30-257)\n\nThe Virginia Housing Commission (the Commission) is established in the\nlegislative branch of state government. The purpose of the Commission is to\nstudy and provide recommendations to ensure and foster the availability of safe,\nsound affordable housing for every Virginian. The Commission may also study and\nmake recommendations relating to such other housing, real property, and\ncommunity development issues as it may be called upon to consider or as may be\ndesirable.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 1000.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}