An internal flub resulted in claims of an apparently nonexistent jump in affordable housing waiting lists, a discovery made only after Fairfax County supervisors called for a review of the backlog.

The county’s Department of Housing and Community Development told The Examiner in July that the waiting list for subsidized housing had jumped by nearly 1,000 since the previous month. It now appears that figure was overstated by about 800 households, the result of what housing department spokeswoman Kristina Norvell calls staff miscommunication.