Events

Thanks to National Low Income Housing Coalition Executive Director Sheila Crowley for passing along this photo of her in Bellagio, Italy, where she spent a recent sabbatical courtesy of the Rockerfeller Foundation.

The Vermont Statewide Housing Conference was the subject of a feature story in this Monday's Business Monday section of The Burlington Free Press.

Another speaker has confirmed for tomorrow's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference: Governor-elect Peter Shumlin will address the attendees during the noon hour.

Shumlin will speak from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m., and take questions from the audience.

VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter appeared on WCAX-TV Channel 3 yesterday, to talk about affordable housing in Vermont and tomorrow's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference on the station's "The :30" program.

Heads-up that we've adjusted the time of the welcome/keynote session for this Thursday's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference.

Registration will now run from 8 to 8:45 am, with the welcome/keynote session starting at 8:45.

Representatives from VHFA will join people from Burlington Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO) and the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) Fair Housing Project (FHP) in presenting the new "Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice" report to the Burlington City Council.

Thanks to everyone who turned out to our open house/press event at 8 Short Street in Barre Town yesterday afternoon.

The address is the location of a new affordable home made possible by the Vermont Housing Acquisition & Rehabilitation Program (HARP), funded by the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

VHFA Chief of Program Operations David Adams will be joined by Central Vermont Community Land Trust (CVCLT) Executive Director Eileen Peltier and Vermont's Community Development Program Grants Management Director Ann Karlene-Kroll at an open house/press event today to celebrate another success of

We received word this afternoon that Realtors who attend three specific workshops at the Nov. 18 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, along with the morning's keynote address by HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan, will earn five (5) continuing education credits.

To earn the credit, Realtors should attend: "Impacts of Mortgage Lending Changes," "Foreclosing on Vermont," and "Lending on Non-Single Family Home," along with the keynote.

Registrations for the Nov. 18 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference have been rolling in fast since news broke this week Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Shaun Donovan will deliver our keynote.