Pathways to opportunity: Housing, transportation, and social mobility

Two important factors connecting communities to employment, education, and vital services are affordable housing and transportation. While improving proximity and access to jobs alone certainly won’t solve our social mobility challenges, it can ameliorate problems like segregation, concentrated poverty, and low-density sprawl that pose real barriers to economic progress for low-income families.

2016 Consolidated Plan Public Meeting

The State of Vermont’s Department of Housing and Community Development is conducting a public hearing in preparation for developing its 2016 HUD Consolidated Plan Action Plan. The purpose of the hearing is to obtain citizens' views about housing, homelessness, public facilities and services, and non-housing community development needs in the state, development of proposed grant activities, and to review past performance of programs included in the plan.

Homelessness Awareness Day and Memorial Vigil at the VT State House

The state's homeless shelters and service providers will commemorate the thousands of homeless and at-risk Vermonters who received housing and/or services this past year. For more information, contact Linda Ryan, (602) 373-6505.

Sponsored by the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition.

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Thursday, January 7th, 2016

 

 

 

VT Community Development Association Fall Conference: Work Force Housing

WORK FORCE HOUSING – SPRINGBOARD TO ECONOMIC VITALITY

Economic Reality of Developing Workforce Housing

....for those in the middle….

  • What is realistic and possible in creating residential communities for middle-income earners?
  • What do older neighborhoods need to attract investment by middle-income earners?
  • How can a community be competitive?
  • What is being done successfully and on what scale?

Hear from developers, builders, funders, planners, local officials, state and federal resources.

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