At 12:15 pm Friday, June 13th, Congressman Peter Welch and Mayor Miro Weinberger will lead a public press conference about the critical link between the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Vermont’s supply of affordable rental housing. The gathering will focus particularly on proposed legislation to strengthen housing credits as a tool for rehabilitating and constructing affordable housing.
Housing in the news
Housing events calendar for week of June 9, 2014
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
Housing discrimination widespread in Vermont, new study finds
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.
VHFA’s expanded toolkit helps Vermonters synch home buying with market cycles
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
Access to affordable housing among top problems facing rural New England
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.
Expertise in low down payment lending helps HFAs fill new gaps
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.
Gap between rent and income growing steadily, Harvard report says
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.