A beautiful, new ranch-style home in St. Johnsbury and fully-renovated historic home in Rutland are for sale to qualified buyers at greatly reduced prices. The Housing Acquisition & Rehabilitation Program (HARP), administered by VHFA, helps qualified home buyers purchase beautifully restored and energy efficient homes. We've just finished with the improvements to these homes and are now offering them at greatly reduced prices thanks to Vermont Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds. HARP's an economic stimulus success story — creating jobs for Vermont building contractors and more affordable homes for Vermont buyers.
People come and people go: In-migration matches out-migration for Vermont in 2013
About 3.5% of Vermont’s population moved out of the state in 2012-2013—about the same number as those moving in, according to Census estimates. This means that the number of people moving in and out of the state had no net effect on the state’s total population.
Having equal sized flows in and out of the state is not unique for Vermont. The earliest estimates available in this format (for 2004-2005) show that roughly the same number of people moved in and out of the state in that year.
Vermont’s experience mirrors that of several New England states. Both Rhode Island and New Hampshire had in- and out-migration rates in the 3-4% range.
Remodeling key to addressing mismatch between aging population and inaccessible housing
The average aging baby boomer plans to “age in place” which will create new levels of demand for remodeling of the currently inaccessible homes they live in, confirms a recent report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Housing is a “silent crisis” says new bi-partisan foundation
The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has become a “silent crisis” says a new report from the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families. The foundation, formed just last month, is led by a bi-partisan group of business leaders, policy makers and financial and housing experts.