Low-income communities are hit hard by extreme weather because they lack the resources required to evacuate and deal with the effects, says a new report from the Center for American Progress.
Among the report's recommendations are:
For workers in certain industries, especially tourism and service jobs, the cost of renting or buying a home in the Burlington metropolitan area is out of reach given average wages paid in these fields.
Based on a study of seven places in the U.S, including the Vermont towns served by the Champlain Housing Trust, Apt Associates’ Jeffrey Lubell concludes that shared equity approaches to housing have clear benefits.
By Michael J. Novogradac, CPA
The Vermont Department of Public Safety has proposed a series of updates to the Vermont Plumbing rules.
The anticipated deadline for public comment is May 21, 2013. Comments may be submitted directly to Robert Patterson ([email protected]).
An estimated 14,400 Vermont workers (4.8 percent) commute an hour or longer, according to a recent Census Bureau study of people who worked outside the home in 2011. Every New England state had a higher prevalence of long commutes than Vermont. Nationwide, 8.1 percent of workers commuted this long.
Earlier this week, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Housing Commission released its vision for the future of housing policy in its report: Housing America's Future: New Directions for National Policy. The recommendations include replacing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a government corporation to provid
Investing in thermal efficiency improvements—primarily air sealing, insulation, and heating system replacements—can dramatically reduce a home’s heating energy use. An estimated 62,000 single and multi-family homes in Vermont will require energy efficient improvements by 2020, according to the state’s recent
An estimated 1,000 households living in South Burlington pay more than half of their incomes for housing, according to VHFA’s recently completed housing needs assessment for the City of South Burlington. Nearly 600 of these households are renter households, while the other 400 households own their homes.
