Foreclosure-Response.org is presenting "Making It Work," a series of four free webinars providing practical information on areas that are challenging for those attempting to implement neighborhood stabilization plans (NSP).

The sessions will be useful to NSP grantees and partners, as well as others working on this issue.

Five Chittenden Bank lenders have been named top VHFA originators for fiscal year 2009: Michelle Shambo, Addison County; Debbie Corey, Bennington County; Laurie Laliberte, Rutland County; Cathy Eakins, Windham County; and Barbara Yankee, Windsor County.

Congratulations to all!

We'll have a few more to announce before too long.

More than $2.3 million in federal stimulus money is coming to help the Rutland Housing Authority (RHA) redevelop Forest Park.

"We're one of just a handful of communities that were awarded these public housing transformation dollars and I think that really speaks to the work the community has done," RHA executive director Kevin Loso said in a recent Rutland Herald article.

Abby Krause has wrapped up her one-year stint as an AmeriCorps *VISTA member working at the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition in Burlington.