Since 2002, Vermont's Statewide Housing Conference has celebrated the achievements and service of individuals by recognizing them through the Housing Hero Award.
The conference committee is seeking nominations of individuals whose leadership, vision and actions have brought about positive and lasting change in the way their community or the state regards housing.
Read more about the criteria and make your nomination online.
Channel 17/Town Meeting TV has added three more airings of yesterday's press conference for the "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Housing and Wages in Vermont." You now have four chances to see it:
Channel 17 serves the communities of Burlington, South Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction, Winooski, Williston, St. George, and parts of Colchester.
Several media outlets covered yesterday's release of the "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Housing and Wages in Vermont" report:
Those of us working in housing in Vermont know there's been an ongoing shortage of housing — especially affordable housing — in our state. CNNMoney published a piece today questioning the possibility of a national shortage.
"The nation is simply not building enough homes to keep up with potential demand," Les Christie writes.
Nicolas Retsinas, Director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies and the keynote speaker at Vermont's Statewide Housing Conference a few years ago, is quoted in the piece.