Registration is now open for the 2026 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, to be held on November 18th at the South Burlington Doubletree Hotel.
Last month, Congress passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, one of the most significant federal housing bills in recent years. The legislation includes several housing reforms, but one provision may have a particularly meaningful impact in Vermont: changes to federal standards for manufactured homes.
The Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) has updated the building permits dataset published on HousingData.org to reflect the newest official releases from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2025. The latest data show that 2,294 buildings were permitted statewide. This represents a slight dip in building permits compared to the previous year, which had been steadily increasing since 2019.
New analysis of Vermont’s Grand List on HousingData.org shows that in 2025, there were approximately 240k residential properties in Vermont, marking an increase of 13k residential properties in Vermont since 2015. Overall, these new properties represent a 6% increase in the total housing stock over the decade.
VHFA’s Research & Community Relations team recently completed a significant update of HousingData.org, improving Vermont’s trusted resource for public-access housing market data & research.
Instead of being driven by population growth, Vermont’s housing shortage is mostly fueled by shrinking household sizes (fewer people living in each home).
According to recent data published by VHFA on HousingData.org, the median sales price of a primary home in Vermont increased by 7% annually from 2000-2025, reaching $379,000.
Recent data can help Vermonters make more impactful decisions about how to meet our state’s most urgent affordable housing needs. Early in 2025, the Vermont Housing Needs Assessment demonstrated a need for 24,000-36,000 additional homes over the next five years to close existing gaps and prepare for future households.
Vermont needs your help identifying new homes built in your community. Earlier this year, VHFA and the State of Vermont published studies quantifying the new homes needed to address immediate and future housing needs.
New research into Vermont’s short-term rental (STR) market conducted by Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) has revealed 16,000 distinct whole-unit listings were available during the year between September 2024-2025. This data represents 43,000 total bedrooms (about 4.6% of the state’s housing stock).