Approximately 70-80 additional housing units are needed in Hinesburg, Vt., to meet demand among current and prospective residents, according to a June 2010 report for the Hinesburg Affordable Housing Committee prepared by consultants from Development Cycles and Housing Strategies.

The majority of the units called for are rental housing for households earning less than the area median income and “age-appropriate ownership housing for seniors at a range of prices.”

Peter Shumlin and Brian Dubie, the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, still plan on speaking at the joint meeting of the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC) Sept. 22.

On Friday, the VAHC reported Dubie had canceled due to a "scheduling snafu." The following day, they reported Dubie's campaign manager, Corry Bliss, had rearranged the candidate's schedule to accommodate the meeting.

VHFA Policy and Planning Manager Maura Collins will be speaking at the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) in Boston next month.

She'll be part of the "New Media in the Internet Age" panel, speaking about VHFA's use of social media like Facebook and Twitter.

You can follow VHFA on Twitter @vhfa and "like" VHFA on Facebook.

For the first time, more people placing calls to employee-assistance lines are requesting help for housing problems than for the previously most common reason, child care.

The numbers come from a new report by ComPsych, which has tracked employee-assistance calls since 1984. The report looked at 25,000 calls placed between January and June of this year.

Housing, specifically moving, was the topic of 41% of all calls. Child care had 32%, elder care 17%, and health care, 10%.

Of those calling with housing issues, 77% were looking for help finding an apartment. Two-thirds of those apartment hunting cited foreclosure as the reason for their move.