The Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (VHCB) will receive a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund Healthy Homes Vermont.
Check out Seven Days to read about changes occurring in the neighborhoods around Burlington's King Street. With offices in the heart of this neighborhood, VHFA is helping with the redevelopment of the Wharf Lane and Bobbin Mill apartment buildings through loans and tax credits.
Buying a home can be one of the most important steps in our lives. The Burlington Free Press recently echoed words of advice from VHFA to consumers thinking about buying a home.
After consulting national housing market economists last week, the New York Times reported that the Federal Reserve's Systems upcoming actions would likely have only modest effects on the overall recovery.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced yesterday the approval of the State of Vermont’s disaster recovery plan totaling $21.6 million in emergency aid to help several Vermont communities recover damage inflicted by Tropical Storm Irene last August, acccording to Vermontbiz.com.
Homelessness among children and teenagers is a chronic problem in Vermont and many other states. In 2011, 838 Vermonters under the age of 18 spent time in the state's shelters, reported the VT Office of Economic Opportunity.
Berlin's Weston Trailer Park, home to 83 Vermont households, suffered extreme damage from Tropical Storm Irene a year ago.
VTDigger describes the remarkable recovery of this park thanks to the help of volunteers and FEMA.
Housing and real estate markets in both the U.S. and Vermont, as measured by home prices are probably close to or just past their "cyclical troughs", according to economists at Kavet, Rockler, and Associates.
Vermont was one of nineteen states that experienced positive year-over-year home price appreciation in the first quarter of 2102, according to the latest report from the economists.
Rising rents, high home prices, and flat wages continue to make it difficult for thousands of Vermont households to balance housing costs with the many other demands made on their slim incomes, according to last week's Stowe Reporter.
Sarah Carpenter, VHFA's Executive Director, and Sarah Neely, crisis counselor at the Central Vermont Community Action Council, were featured in the article.
148 rental units in Burlington’s south end will remain affordable in the long run thanks to its upcoming purchase by Champlain Housing Trust.
VHFA provided a loan and federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits when South Meadow was initially developed in the 1980s.
Read more in this week's Seven Days.