The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is formalizing the national standard for determining whether a housing practice violates the Fair Housing Act as the result of discriminatory effect. 

Champlain Housing Trust is offering free credit reports and a 30-minute appointment with a credit counselor tomorrow, Wednesday, February 6.   Any household with an annual income of $50,000 or less is eligible. 

Weatherize 3% of the homes in your community and help your neighbors reduce their energy bills by participating in the 2013 Vermont Home Energy Challenge. Efficiency Vermont, in partnership with the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network, is seeking local organizations to champion the Challenge in their communities and to sign up their towns to participate.

After a trough in 2009, volumes and median prices of primary homes in Vermont are on an upswing.  The median sales price jumped two percent in 2012 to $199,000, according to VHFA’s analysis of VT property transfer tax records processed by December 31, 2012.   This is almost as high as the state's peak of $200,000 in 2007 and 2008.