Prices of homes sold in Vermont were approximately 4% lower during the second quarter of 2010 than 12 months earlier, according to repeat sales data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
Vermont was no different than other northeastern states. All of them experienced lower prices during 2010’s second quarter, in comparison to 2009’s second quarter.
For additional information, see the FHFA press release (PDF).
Today, Vermont Public Radio (VPR) will devote its "Vermont Edition" program to the topic of downtown planning.
Host Jane Lindholm will examine a new approach to creating livable, mixed-use downtowns for residents and businesses: "form-based code."
Her guests will be Noelle MacKay of Smart Growth Vermont in Burlington, and Paul Dreher, zoning administrator in Newport, which is in the process of approving form-based code for its downtown.
You can hear the show at noon and 7 p.m. today on the stations of VPR.
Brian Pine, Assistant Director for Housing at Burlington's Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO), will be on cable Channel 17 this afternoon talking about the forthcoming report, “An Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.”
He'll join Kevin Stapleton of Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity's (CVOEO) Fair Housing Project.
"The CEDO Show" airs at 5:25 p.m. today.
VHFA produced the report under contract by CEDO.
Channel 17 serves the communities of Burlington, South Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction, Winooski, Williston, St. George, and parts of Colchester.
Santina "Sunny" Leporati has started at the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition in Burlington as an AmeriCorps VISTA member.
Sunny recently graduated from the University of Vermont (UVM) with a Masters in Public Administration. She also holds a Bachelors in Public Communication from UVM.
"I have always thought of safe, affordable housing as a basic human right, a right necessary for positive growth and development for any given community," she writes. "I am excited to be working on preserving and expanding that right."
Sunny will share duties with Marissa Fischer until Marissa's term of duty expires in November.