Consensus is growing quickly that improving housing options is essential to improving the health of Vermonters. Released this week, early results of the 2019 Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties Community Health Needs Assessment show affordable housing as the top-ranked concern among social and environmental health challenges. To help connect the people and systems focused on housing and health care, the upcoming Vermont Statewide Housing Conference on November 13-14 in Burlington will provide several innovative opportunities to move forward.
Wellness
Need an affordable apartment?
Need an affordable apartment or know someone who does? There are vacancies in 26 different apartment complexes across the state, according to the Vermont Directory of Affordable Rental Housing.
Hoarding: A Practical Overview
The Vermont Resident Service Coordinators (VRSC) has an event coming up! in March, David O'Leary will be speaking about hoarding intervention techniques. David is a Housing Retention Specialist with the Burlington Housing Authority who specializes in hoarding and squalor cases. He joined BHA in 2015 after two years of domestic violence advocacy at STEPS to
End Domestic Violence (Formerly Women Helping Battered Women).
Need an affordable apartment?
Need an affordable apartment or know someone who does? There are vacancies in 23 different apartment complexes across the state, according to the Vermont Directory of Affordable Rental Housing.
Children's Literacy Foundation has opportunities for rental housing and other service providers
The At-Risk Children grant is open to social service providers, community centers, afterschool programs, refugee services organizations, shelters, low income housing programs, Head Start programs, early childhood education programs, and a wide range other groups throughout Vermont and New Hampshire that serve low-income or at-risk infants and children up to age 12 (or a portion of that age range).
The application deadline is May 15, 2017 for programming that will take place in the Fall of 2017.
VHFA ranked again among top 5 best small places to work in Vermont
VHFA is ranked again in the top five Best Places to Work among small and medium sized companies across the state by the Vermont Business Magazine. After receiving the honor of the top spot in 2016, VHFA was ranked fourth for 2017. The award was made last night at the DoubleTree Hotel in South Burlington where Governor Phil Scott and hundreds of employees from the 45 companies ranked as finalists gathered.
Need an affordable apartment?
Need an affordable apartment or know someone who does? There are vacancies in 35 different apartment complexes across the state, according to the Vermont Directory of Affordable Rental Housing.
Need an affordable apartment?
Need an affordable apartment or know someone who does? There are vacancies in 24 different apartment complexes across the state, according to the Vermont Directory of Affordable Rental Housing.
Emergency Housing requirements eased during frigid temperatures Dec. 15-16
From VT. Dept. for Children and Families:
Give back by donating new mittens and gloves for Vermont children and teens
Break out your knitting needles (or get shopping) to keep children warm this winter. Drop off new children’s mittens and gloves at VHFA’s office at the corner of Saint Paul and King Streets in Burlington by Friday, December 16.
After stuffing them with holiday goodies, VHFA will deliver the gifts to the King Street Center for children and teens who participate in their programs.
VHFA’s mitten drive has been an annual holiday tradition for many years, thanks to the generosity of area mitten and glove donors like you. Contact Steve Gronlund with questions at 864-5743 .