The Addison County Independent published a story today about the county's housing challenges.
VHFA Policy & Planning Manager Maura Collins, as well as our friends at Addison County Community Trust, NeighborWorks of Western Vermont and John Graham Emergency Shelter, are quoted in the piece.
Even though the state’s economy is recovering by many indicators, economists project a continued decline in Vermont home prices and foreclosure rates hovering at an all-time high through at least mid-2011.
Folks from VHFA, Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) and Housing Vermont recently joined residents and other guests in celebrating the completion of improvements to Pleasant Street Apartments in Enosburg Falls.
The number of homeless families in the U.S. rose for the second year in a row, according to The 2009 Annual Assessment Report to Congress recently completed by HUD.
This rise shows the impact of the economic downturn “on the housing stability of low-income and vulnerable Americans,” the report explains.