It feels like new apartments are popping up on Broad Street and in Manchester nearly every week.

What's happening: We wanted to know who is moving into all these new places.

• Where did they come from? What do they do?

We're going to try to answer those questions in a new, occasional series we're calling "Who lives here?"

• To kick things off, we stopped by The Summit on Broad Street in Scott's Addition.

The building: The Summit was built in 2020, is seven stories tall and has 166 apartments with monthly rents ranging from $1,400 to $3,100, per Apartments.com.

The tenant: Britt Deraffele is a 36-year-old jeweler who shares a two-bedroom unit with her husband, a chef and restaurant owner, and their dog Coconut.

• They moved in May and pay $2,200 a month for a corner unit with a balcony overlooking Broad.

Where she used to live: The couple lived in a single-family home a block away on Grace Street for eight years, which they rented for $1950 a month.

Why she moved: Their old landlord planned to raise their rent, and they didn't need all the space and got tired of the maintenance problems that came with living in an old home.

• "Now when we get home and we just get to relax instead of, you know, scrubbing mold off the wall," she says.

How she describes her new neighbors: Two families on her floor are in their 40s and have kids. The rest are a "a general mix of 20s and 30s-aged young professionals."

The bottom line: "We love it," she says.

• "We never hear our neighbors, which was something we were worried about. And great amenities. We really enjoyed the pool this summer."

The best predictor of violence in Richmond neighborhoods is the number of landlords delinquent on their property taxes, researchers at VCU found.

What they found: The link between violence and dilapidated rental buildings was stronger than every other factor studied, including income levels and population density, per the study.

Why it matters: The research suggests that external factors — bad landlords — have a greater destabilizing effect on neighborhoods than internal factors, like poverty.

• The findings lend credence to slumlord buyout programs, which have transferred neglected properties to residents for rehabilitation.

What they're saying: "I believe that Richmond is a perfect place to attempt a program like this at a larger scale," the study's lead author, Samuel West, told VCU News.

🧑🏻‍💻 Three times more state employees are working remotely than before the pandemic, according to Youngkin's administration, which has faced criticism for its return-to-office mandate earlier this summer. (WRIC)

• As of September, 15,338 salaried state workers out of 55,588 are working remotely at least one day a week, and 1,712 are working remotely five days a week.

💸 Two Virginia congressional challengers, Yesli Vega and Hung Cao, were among 11 GOP candidates who raised more than $1 million in the third quarter. (Axios)

🚫 India K' Raja restaurant in Henrico was tagged with racist graffiti over the weekend. (Times-Dispatch)

More than 150 people, including two Virginians, gathered at a museum in Los Angeles late last month for the unveiling of the Ireichō, the book of names.

• The book lists the 125,284 Japanese Americans incarcerated at internment camps during World War II and will be on display at the Japanese American National Museum for the next year.
• The full list of names is also available as an online archive.

Why it matters: It is the first comprehensive list of the tens of thousands of Americans imprisoned for their Japanese heritage at one of the 75 sites across the country, including one at the Homestead resort in Hot Springs.

• The book is more than 1,000 pages long and weighs 25 pounds, in part because soil collected from all 75 sites is embedded into its fabric.

Driving the news: No one knows for sure how many Virginians were interred in the camps, but through the book and the accompanying project, there's hope that will change, Emma Ito, director of education at Virginia Humanities, tells Axios.

• Ito attended the event along with Richmonder Regina Boone, whose yearslong effort to find out what happened to her Japanese-born grandfather was chronicled in a documentary in 2020.

Details: Ito, who wrote her master's thesis on the Japanese experience in Virginia, attended the unveiling as a representative for the roughly two dozen Japanese-born people held at the Homestead, who were mostly diplomats sent from D.C.

• She was also there as a descendent, as her great, great grandmother was incarcerated in Utah.
• Boone was there on behalf of her grandfather and provided soil from Fort Howard in Maryland, where she learned he was sent after being arrested near his home in Suffolk, per LAist.

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👋 Ned here, tasting a local alternative to heavily marketed pumpkin spice drinks.

What's happening: Blanchard's Coffee caught our attention with a fall addition to its menu, a salted maple crème latte.

• It costs $5 and is available at all three of their locations.

Why it matters: It's warm, sweet and appropriately autumnal without going overboard like its cloying, chain-store cousin.

The bottom line: It sort of tasted like I was drinking French toast, which I liked.

🏆 Worth noting: Blanchard's is hosting a preliminary round of the U.S. Coffee Championships this weekend.

• You can watch baristas compete throughout the weekend, including at a latte art throwdown at 6pm Saturday.