How quickly a year passes: It's already mid-May, which means VHFA has started our annual search for photo subjects for our next annual report.

We're looking for folks who purchased a home in the last year, give or take, with the help of a VHFA mortgage, and who are happy to sit 20 minutes for a photo with their home.

The VHFA Board of Commissioners today formally recognized the contributions of Public Affairs Manager John Fairbanks and General Counsel Elizabeth Mullikin-Drake.

John and Elizabeth are both completing their tenures at the Agency this month, after several years of service.

The Board passed two resolutions at its monthly meeting held in Montpelier this morning.

John's resolution reads, in part:

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.

This morning's Burlington Free Press includes an opinion piece by Burlington attorney L. Randolph Amis.

Published as a follow-up to our recent release of "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Housing and Wages in Vermont," he writes:

"I fear that soon the authors may need to change the title to 'Between a Rock and No Place' as more and more Vermonters are unable to find safe and secure housing."