Organizing your schedule for next week? Check out the list below and the Events Calendar page on VHFA's website for the latest Vermont housing events. Monday-Wednesday, September 16-18 Solutions 2013: National Conference on State and Local Housing Policy
Organizing your schedule for next week? Check out the list below and the Events Calendar page on VHFA's website for the latest Vermont housing events.
Wednesday, Sept 11
VAHC Annual Meeting, Joint Meeting with VCEH & VCEH Monthly Meeting
On the shores of Lake Champlain yesterday afternoon, VHFA-ers celebrated summer.
It was a great afternoon of catching up with colleagues and perfecting the fine art of cornhole. Novices like this writer learned about “cow pies” (when the bag lands on the board for a point), sliders, and swishes.
Highgate Apartments in Barre recently hosted the 2-week Highgate Funnery Shakespeare Camp. Eighteen children ages 10 to 15 from Highgate Apartments and nearby Green Acre Apartments worked very hard to prepare a performance of Macbeth, arguably one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most demanding plays.
President Obama’s speech Tuesday has spurred debate about the federal government’s role in financing home ownership, according to yesterday’s New York Times. A live on-line chat with Obama toda
Mark your calendars for VHFA’s Friends and Family night at Centennial Field on Sunday, August 11th. Tickets are on sale now for a discounted rate of $6 each with half of all proceeds being donated directly to the United Way.
When Joe Erdelyi first walked through VHFA’s doors as an intern from the University of Vermont, he had little inkling that he would ultimately become such an integral part of affordable rental housing development in Vermont. Erdelyi, VHFA’s Development Director, has spent the past twenty years helping non-profit and for-profit developers around the state build and renovate much needed rental housing by overseeing the allocation of housing
VHFA is excited to announce that Jeanne Morrissey has joined its governing board of commissioners. Governor Shumlin appointed Morrissey, a long-time Vermont builder, to the board in June.
Traveler and author Jan Reynolds visited the Highgate apartment community in Barre this week, thanks to the Children's Literacy Foundation. She described her recent trip to the Himalayan mountains including what it's like to fly in a hot air balloon over Mt. Everest and ski off a 14,000 foot mountain!
Want to learn more about housing policy and finance in a fun, stimulating, and convenient way? Maura Collins, VHFA's own Policy and Planning Manager will once again be leading this fall's graduate-level Housing Policy course at UVM.