VHFA was ranked number one Best Place to Work among small and medium sized companies across the state by the Vermont Business Magazine. The award was made last night at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center, where hundreds of employees from the 38 companies ranked as finalists gathered.
Events
Join the ULI and Enterprise Community Partners to gain the tools, knowledge, and connections for developing exceptional affordable homes that support broader opportunities for low-income families.
This is ULI’s only national conference focused entirely on residential development and housing affordability. Through a program with ample networking, inspiring talks, practical site tours, and replicable examples, Housing Opportunity helps housing leaders improve their practice and build new partnerships.
- Home buying process
- Tips on choosing the right home for you & your family
- Different types of mortgages
- Closing costs
- First time homebuyer incentives & more
Registration Fee is $100.00. Register on or before April 4, 2016 and take advantage of the reduced rate of $85.00.
Join AARP, The University of Vermont's Center on Aging, and guest speaker Natalie Galucia MSA, Director of the Village to Village Network, in exploring the village concept. The Village Movement is the concept of developing nonprofit villages for those age 50 and older, in which they can age at home safely and as part of a community.
Legislature learns how to turn temporary down payment assistance program into self-funding tool for future home buyers
Vermont's House Committee on Ways and Means learned this morning about opportunities to transform a temporary statewide down payment assistance program enacted last year into a self-funding program that can help first-time home buyers for years to come. VHFA's Executive Director, Sarah Carpenter, met with the committee this morning to explain how a legacy program could be created with the addition of four years of state housing credit funding.
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.
RuralEdge Homeownership Center is offering a class on the homebuying process, choosing the right home, mortgage types, closing costs, first-time homebuyer incentives and more. The class is sponsored by Passumpsic Savings Bank and Poulin Lumber. Learn more about how to sign up.
This will be an opportunity for organizations to talk with state legislators about the importance of the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board's balanced and sustainable investments in Vermont communities.
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.
Happy Holidays from Vermont Housing Finance Agency