Champlain Housing Trust announced the new Manufactured Home Replacement Program last week. The program is intented to assist mobile or manufactured home owners replace older or Irene-damaged mobile homes with newer and more energy efficient, resilient and affordable ones.
Disaster recovery
Updates needed to Vermont's list of vacant subsidized rental housing before next storm
In light of the storm forecast for next week, owners and managers of Vermont's subsidized rental housing are encouraged to be sure that all vacancies are listed in the Vermont Directory of Affordable Rental Housing.
HUD approves $21.6 million 2011 flood recovery plan
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.
Building a more resilient Vermont one year after Irene
A year ago since Tropical Storm Irene, Vermonters are coming to terms with the fact that extreme weather events will undoubtedly become more frequent. In response, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, a Montpelier-based nonprofit, is launching a new project called "Resilient Vermont". The goal of the project is to enhance Vermont’s ability to build on lessons learned from last year’s disasters and increase the state’s ability to adapt. The Institute for Sustainable Communities is partnering with the Shumlin Administration, the state’s Department of Economic, Housing, and Community Development and other stakeholders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors to produce tools for the state to improve its resiliency.
Building materials needed for Irene rebuilding in Pawlet
BROC Community Action in Southwestern Vermont is collecting materials for rebuilding homes damaged by Tropical Storm Irene.
HUD – VHFA Work Day
At a January audit of VHFA by the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), HUD Manchester (NH) Multifamily Program Center Acting Director Mark Seltzer, when he learned about VHFA’s two work days in the Waterbury area for Irene recovery, suggested that HUD and VHFA hold a joint work day … so we did!
Vermonters replacing mobile homes get tax relief
Vermont owners of mobile homes damaged during the state's federally declared disasters last year will receive rebates of their Vermont Property Transfer Tax, Governor Shumlin announced yesterday.
Replacement homes must have been purchased between April 2, 2011 and June 30, 2012 to qualify for the rebate.
Public hearings on Vermont disaster recovery funds started yesterday in Brattleboro
Representatives from the Vermont Department of Economic, Housing, and Community Development answered questions from Windham county residents and business owners last night at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro. This meeting marked the first of three public hearings on the state's plan to distribute $21.7 million in federal Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery funds.