The Valley News published a piece yesterday looking at workforce housing in Vermont/New Hampshire's Upper Valley.
In a nutshell, "Home prices are still beyond the means of many people in the Upper Valley."
VHFA's Sarah Carpenter, Maura Collins and Leslie Black-Plumeau provided some opinions and statistics for the story.
As a coda to our announcement a couple weeks ago regarding VHFA's top mortgage loan originators, today we named our top five participating lending institutions for fiscal year 2009:
While Vermont doesn't have any urban area as populated as Portland, Ore., we might have something to learn by reading a recent report published by Living Cities.
"A Human Connection: How Portland, Ore., Made a Big Dent in Chronic Homelessness" tells the story of how Portland reduced its population of chronic homeless by 70 percent between 2005 and '08.
The key to their success? Establishing a "human connection" between the city's chronically homeless and public.
Quick reminder that the Directory of Affordable Rental Housing (DoARH) Web site lets all managers of subsidized housing in Vermont post their vacancies for free.
Visited by hundreds of people each week, the DoARH is an easy-to-use, central location to publicize your vacancies, and it helps meet your Fair Housing posting requirements.