VHFA's offering a new low mortgage interest rate: 4.125% APR for a 30-year, fixed rate loan with no points for qualified borrowers.

This is the lowest rate we've offered in our 36-year history!

Read more in our press release (PDF).

Now through the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, Nov. 18, we’re spotlighting speakers planning to participate in the day’s bevy of workshops. Next up: Shaun Gilpin, Program Director of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity; Mobile Home Project.

At the Mobile Home Project Shaun works with residents to increase control over and improve their living situation within the mobile home parks across Vermont. This encompasses organizing resident associations, educating residents about their rights and advocating for the protection of mobile home park tenants.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Friday 250 non-elderly Vermonters with disabilities will receive housing assistance.

HUD's awarding nearly $33 million nationwide to fund rental assistance vouchers for this population through its Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities Program.

$1.17 million is going to fund 200 vouchers available through the Vermont State Housing Authority. Another $287,220 is going to fund 50 vouchers available through the Barre Housing Authority.

Yesterday the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee voted unanimously to support the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010 (S.1481). The legislation reforms the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development's (HUD) Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities.

S.1481 authorizes an innovative 811 demonstration program that promotes integrated housing opportunities for people with disabilities and could create 3,500-5,000 or more new affordable and accessible units every year without increasing Section 811 appropriations. During recent years, the program has produced fewer than 1,000 units annually.