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The latest sponsor of the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference is...
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The latest sponsor of the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference is...
A user named "Wharf Lane Residents" has created a petition at Web site Care2 to encourage the owners of Wharf Lane Apartments in Burlington to keep the property affordable.
The 37-unit project might lose its affordability status if the owner sells to the private market. For more background, read the story from Seven Days newspaper.)
They're looking for 1,000 signatures and are currently at 25.
You can sign the petition online.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has posted the Choice Neighborhood FY10 Notice of Funding Availability Pre-Notice. It gives potential applicants guidance prior to the Choice Neighborhoods funding notice, which will be published this summer.
The guidance offers advance details regarding the application process to compete for funds through this pilot program.
The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) invites community members to nominate subsidized housing communities in Vermont and New Hampshire to participate in a free program that promotes a love of books and reading among at-risk children.
The winning properties will receive:
To call Edna Fairbanks-Williams an affordable housing advocate is to give her only a fraction of the credit she earned during her life spent defending Vermont's poor and underprivileged.
Edna died yesterday in a car accident not far from her Hubbardton home. She was 77.
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is accepting entries for its Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Awards through June 4.
The awards recognize developers for leadership and creativity in expanding workforce housing opportunities for America's working families.
Winners will be honored at the ULI Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Online entry form and more information is available at the ULI site.
VHFA Policy and Planning Manager Maura Collins will teach a graduate-level housing policy course at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
The course will be offered in the Fall 2010 semester.
A syllabus from her '09 course is available online.
For more information, contact Maura.
We've updated the VHFA Web site to include a tool to help homebuyers determine which VHFA home loan program might be best for them.
By answering eight quick questions and clicking a button, the site will help broadly determine whether a homebuyer falls within VHFA's guidelines, and which loan program they might be eligible to participate in.
Former VHFA Commissioner Carl Spangler has died in Woodstock. He was 61.
He moved to Vermont from Pennsylvania in 1975. Two years later, then-Gov. Richard Snelling appointed him Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
He served on VHFA's Board of Commissioners from 1977-80 and went on help develop the Killington Ski area.
We're anticipating vhfa.org and vhfa.net, our business partner extranet, will be unavailable for a few hours Thursday morning.
We're planning maintenance on our Web server beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday, and expect to be back up and running no later than noon.