The Center for Research on Vermont is presenting a free seminar for data professionals this month: Research-in-Progress Seminar #222: "Counting Vermont in the 21st Century: The 2010 Census and Changes to Data on Our State and Communities."
Today's Wall Street Journal article "Vermont Mortgage Laws Shut The Door on Bust — and Boom" examines Vermont's low rate of foreclosure and attributes it, in part, to banking regulations and land use practices.
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) (formerly the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight [OFHEO]) announced its first quarter 2009 home sale appreciation index in May.
This is a good data source because it measures true appreciation — meaning same house price changes — instead of tracking median sales prices.
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Excerpt taken from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's "Multifamily Property Managers' Satisfaction with Service Coordination" report:
A recent study evaluated the level of satisfaction among property managers with the provision of service coordination that links residents of HUD-assisted, multifamily housing to needed supportive services.
The Center for Housing Policy today released a report that shows Burlington, Vermont, is the 33rd most expensive metropolitan area in the country for housing rentals.
For homeownership, Burlington ties with Sacramento, Calif., as the 56th most expensive in the nation.
(San Francisco takes top "honors" on both lists.)
We made two updates to the Vermont Housing Data Web site this week.
On Monday we did a regularly-scheduled update of the Directory of Affordable Rental Housing (DoARH).
The DoARH is a searchable database of all subsidized rental housing in the state.
Vermonters who rent their homes live in the 15th most expensive state in the nation for renters, according to a new report.
"Out of Reach 2008-2009" was released today by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), a Washington, D.C.-based housing advocacy group, and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition.
A new report shows people with disabilities who rely on Supplemental Social Security (SSI) income are hard-pressed to afford even simple one-bedroom or studio apartments.
The Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force publishes its "Priced Out" report every other year.
Uncertainty is a consistent theme among economists these days, with each round of projections for Vermont's plight worse than the last.
Columnist Robert Samuelson explained to the audience at a Vermont economy conference in early January the only other national economic experience like this was the spiraling inflation of the 1970s because, like now, people could not see where it would end.
We managed a significant accomplishment this week when we added a charting function to the Vermont Housing Data site.