Sen. Bernie Sanders will hold a series of "town meetings" on the economy and federal budget priorities.
He hopes to discuss ways to prevent cuts to programs that benefit Vermont's working families.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will hold a series of "town meetings" on the economy and federal budget priorities.
He hopes to discuss ways to prevent cuts to programs that benefit Vermont's working families.
The State of Vermont’s Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development (DEHCD) will conduct a public hearing to receive comments on its proposed HUD Consolidated Plan 2011 Action Plan.
The hearing will take place Friday, March 25, from 2-3 p.m. in the Calvin Coolidge Room, at the National Life Building North Lobby, Sixth Floor, Montpelier.
The Vermont Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development (DEHCD) will hold a public hearing regarding the third phase of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
The hearing will be tomorrow from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Calvin Coolidge Conference Room, National Life Building, 1 National Life Drive in Montpelier.
NSP funds the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Program (HARP) that allows VHFA to purchase foreclosed properties, renovate them, and resell them to income-eligible Vermonters using grants to assure the homes stay affordable in the future.
For information on tomorrow's hearing, contact DEHCD's Ann Karlene Kroll at 802.828.5225, [email protected].
The next Vermont Statewide Housing Conference will be held Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at the Hilton in downtown Burlington.
Watch the conference Web site and follow the conference on Twitter to be kept up-to-date on planning for the biennial event.
And mark your calendars ...
The Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC) is encouraging Burlington residents to attend tonight's Burlington City Council meeting and speak out in support of affording housing in Vermont.
The Council is considering adding a question to Burlington's March ballot urging Vermont lawmakers to protect 300 affordable housing units in the Queen City by passing preservation legislation.
According to VAHC, more than 2,500 affordable units are at risk statewide.
The Council's meeting is at 7 tonight, at City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington. The public forum begins at 7:30.
VHFA is conducting its annual review of the Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) for Tax Credits, and will hold a public hearing for feedback next Wednesday.
The QAP determines how VHFA allocates Vermont's Housing Tax Credits. We estimate we'll have $2.63 million in 2011-12 credits to allocate.
Next week's public hearing is a meeting of the Joint Committee on Tax Credits, which is responsible for making recommendations to the VHFA Board of Commissioners on changes to the QAP. It'll be held at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 19 at VHFA, 164 Saint Paul St., Burlington.
VHFA expects its Board of Commissioners will act on the Committee's recommendation at the Board's Feb. 7 meeting. Allocations made after the Board's adoption will be made under criteria of the newly-revised QAP.
The Vermont Department of Economic, Housing, & Community Development and CVOEO's Fair Housing Project present "Removing Barriers to Strengthen Communities: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at the Local Level" next month.
The workshop will offer important information to municipal planners, realtors, lenders, affordable housing developers, property managers and town officials. Topics include:
VHFA's Maura Collins helped present the Burlington Community & Economic Development Office's (CEDO) fair housing report to the Burlington City Council last night.
You can watch the meeting on Channel 17/CCTV Sunday night at 8. The station will eventually post streaming video of the meeting on its Web site.
The report was researched and written by VHFA Research Analyst Leslie Black-Plumeau and returning University of Pennsylvania’s Warton School intern Casey Klyszeiko, under Maura's direction.
We've had a chance to tally up the evaluation forms collected at the Nov. 18 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, and are pleased most attendees were pleased with the event.
A total of 233 people completed evaluations at the event or after the conference through our Web site. They gave the conference an overall rating of 4.3 out of 5.
Our three highest-rated workshops were:
Channel 17/ Town Meeting Television will be airing U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Sec. Shaun Donovan‘s keynote address recorded at the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference three times this week:
Channel 17 serves the communities of Burlington, South Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction, Winooski, Williston, St. George, and parts of Colchester.