The Burlington Free Press included a story in yesterday's edition headlined "Housing market showing recovery."
Dan McLean writes, "In Vermont, the pace of home sales has quickened in recent months, but sales prices remain below last year's levels."
The Burlington Free Press included a story in yesterday's edition headlined "Housing market showing recovery."
Dan McLean writes, "In Vermont, the pace of home sales has quickened in recent months, but sales prices remain below last year's levels."
In light of $2.34 million in federal stimulus funding coming to help restore Forest Park in Rutland — Read our previous post — the Rutland Herald has published a story looking at the history of that early-'70s housing development.
VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter is quoted in the piece by staff writer Stephanie Peters.
In an article published in yesterday's Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, writer Bruce Edwards quotes a number of housing insiders about the effects of the first-time homebuyer tax credit on home sales in Vermont.
Opinions vary.
VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter is one of many people quoted.
We're always encouraging new homebuyers to attend a class given by the NeighborWorks® HomeOwnership Centers of Vermont. The knowledge you'll gain will be well worth the modest price.
Ludy Biddle, Executive Director of NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, has outlined the nine topics covered by her organization's "Housing 101" course in an article that appeared in the Rutland Herald this weekend.
"With fluctuating interest rates, legal language barriers, confusing contingency clauses, home buying — your most important purchase ever — is a daunting adventure," she writes.
"The best way to begin is by getting an education."
More than $2.3 million in federal stimulus money is coming to help the Rutland Housing Authority (RHA) redevelop Forest Park.
"We're one of just a handful of communities that were awarded these public housing transformation dollars and I think that really speaks to the work the community has done," RHA executive director Kevin Loso said in a recent Rutland Herald article.
RHA plans to demolish the existing project and rebuild it as single-family homes and apartments.
Total cost of the project is approximately $21 million.
Seven Days, the Burlington area's alternative weekly newspaper, made Burlington's tight rental market its cover story this week.
In "Unfair Market," Andy Bromage writes "Burlington ... continues to boast one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country: an astonishing 1.3 percent. In other words, for every 1,000 apartments in the city, just 13 are available for rent at any given time.
"A 5 percent vacancy is considered healthy for a city; anything lower than that is considered “tight."
The September/October issue of Livin' the Vermont Way magazine features a story titled "Hunkering Down: Vermont's banks weather the economic storm."
The 3-page article by Cindy Ellen Hill of Middlebury quotes Tom Candon, Deputy Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care and a Commissioner of VHFA: "The national economy does impact on us here ... but we're apparently better off than most are."
The article points out Vermont has one of the lowest rates of foreclosures and bankruptcies in the U.S.
In this morning's edition the Burlington Free Press made mention of the $1.4 million in federal funds coming to Vermont for Blake Commons in Swanton.
Yesterday's announcement by the U.S. Department of the Treasury was covered by Vermont Public Radio (VPR).
VPR's Ross Sneyd spoke with VHFA Chief of Program Operations David Adams about the $1.4 million coming to Vermont from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act to help fund Blake Commons, a 16-unit multifamily affordable housing project in Swanton.
After a couple weeks (mostly) off, Housing Matters is catching up with what happened recently in housing-related news.
Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) turns 25
Our friends at Champlain Housing Trust — formerly the Burlington Community Land Trust — were featured in the Burlington Free Press for their 25th anniversary. Congratulations!
You can read the CHT article online.
Land use, development report covered
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus reported on the release of the 107-page "Imagining Vermont: Values and Vision for the Future" by the non-profit, non-partisan Council on the Future of Vermont.