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.
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.
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.
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.