Organizing your schedule for the week? Check out the list below and the Events Calendar page on VHFA’s website for the latest Vermont housing events.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition Monthly Meeting
Organizing your schedule for the week? Check out the list below and the Events Calendar page on VHFA’s website for the latest Vermont housing events.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition Monthly Meeting
A new report finds high rates of discrimination in Vermont's rental housing market based on race, color, national origin, disability, and minor children.
The report describes the results of 260 paired tests conducted in 2012 and 2013 by the Housing Discrimination Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid.
The period immediately after a recession is typically a time of renewed interest among would-be home buyers since home prices are likely at a low point. A recent Champlain Business Journal article (subscription required) interviewed&n
Next to job availability, access to affordable housing was ranked the second most important challenge for lower-income communities by New England respondents to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Outlook Survey.
Home buyers across the nation with less than a 20 percent down payment are discovering that their state's housing finance agency (HFA) offers mortgages with the terms they need, according to a recent report from Bloomberg news.
Significant erosion in renter incomes over the past decade has pushed the number of households paying excessive shares of income for housing to record levels, a report this week by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies confirmed.
Vermont’s home values increased and its homeownership rate remained constant since the recession —two unique trends in comparison to other states in New England and the U.S., according to an American Community Survey brief from the Census Bureau released last month and covered recently by