The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is seeking input from the business community about their experiences with permitting and environmental regulation in Vermont. Please share your insights at one of the "listening tour" meetings the Agency is holding over the next two weeks at locations around the state.
Events
Best Practices in Supportive Housing Training Feb. 14
As a part of the ongoing Roadmap to End Homelessness work that VHFA has partially funded through a partnership with the Agency of Human Services, Vermont Housing & Conservation Board and many others, national experts on Supportive Housing will be in Vermont next week to provide a training on best practices.
Housing developers, managers, and advocates are strongly encouraged to attend to learn about the most successful ways of creating affordable housing with necessary supportive services to increase households’ success in living independently after homelessness.
Film “The Hungry Heart” featured at VT Resident Services Coordinators March meeting
NPR interviews Secretary Castro about transition to new HUD leadership
HUD Secretary Julian Castro described his hopes for the transition to new leadership during an interview with NPR yesterday.
A congressional confirmation hearing, scheduled for Thursday, will provide an opportunity for nominee Ben Carson to share his goals for U.S. housing policy.
Castro met with Vermont housing officials in Burlington last summer and attended the opening of the new Bright Street affordable rental housing complex.
VHFA helps spread warmth to area children and teens
With the outdoor temperature near zero, VHFA’s Steve Gronlund headed out this afternoon to deliver candy-stuffed gloves, mittens and hats for at least 100 kids to the King Street Center. The Edlund Company partnered with VHFA this year to collect gear donations from staff and friends.
The mitten drive is a much-loved annual tradition that is part of VHFA’s year-long schedule of charitable activities.
Literacy program opportunities for general occupancy rental housing and other service providers
The Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is now accepting applications for its At-Risk Children grant. This free grant opportunity is open to social service providers, early childhood education programs, daycare centers, school-based programs such as ELL classrooms and afterschool programs, family centers, community organizations, shelters, low-income housing and other groups throughout Vermont and New Hampshire that serve low-income or at-risk infants and children up to age 12 (or a segment of that age range).
Real Estate for Millennials event tonight at the Growler Garage in Burlington
Don't miss tonight's Burlington Young Professionals On Tap event to learn about how to get started thinking about buying a home. VHFA's Seth Leonard as well as other experts will be on hand to answer your questions and provide critical tips on buying a home in Vermont.
Local realtor Blair Knowles described what the event has to offer and some of the challenges facing first time home buyers on WCAX last night.
- Tuesday, November 29, 2016
- 5:30 - 7:30 pm
- The Growler Garage
- 30 Main Street
- Burlington, VT
Give back by donating new mittens and gloves for Vermont children and teens
Break out your knitting needles (or get shopping) to keep children warm this winter. Drop off new children’s mittens and gloves at VHFA’s office at the corner of Saint Paul and King Streets in Burlington by Friday, December 16.
After stuffing them with holiday goodies, VHFA will deliver the gifts to the King Street Center for children and teens who participate in their programs.
VHFA’s mitten drive has been an annual holiday tradition for many years, thanks to the generosity of area mitten and glove donors like you. Contact Steve Gronlund with questions at 864-5743 .
HUNDREDS CONVERGE AT STATEWIDE CONFERENCE TO EXPAND STABLE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING
BURLINGTON-The message to the hundreds of professionals gathered at the Hilton Burlington yesterday was loud and clear: A stable life starts with stable housing. Scholars Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer described the poignant interviews they had with poor families before writing their renowned book “$2.00 A Day: Living on Next to Nothing in America.”
“When we asked what they needed most, people consistently said they wanted a home of their own and a job paying $10-$12 hour.” Without the safety of four walls, poor families live in a highly volatile “toxic alchemy” of threats and obstacles, Edin explained.
VERMONT'S LARGEST HOUSING CONFERENCE MONDAY-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14-15 AT HILTON BURLINGTON
VERMONT’S LARGEST HOUSING CONFERENCE
MONDAY-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14-15 AT HILTON BURLINGTON Newly-elected state leaders and nontraditional partnerships featured