Housing Matters just learned that VHFA received Vermont's 2012 Worksite Wellness Award. The award comes from the Vermont Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

The award "acknowledges employers who are experiencing rapid growth and interest in the area of health promotion...[and] demonstrate an understanding of health management planning principals.

Vermont Housing Finance Agency has an opening for a paid summer intern in our Information Technology Department. We are seeking, energetic, efficient, and team oriented person to assist with help desk and network functions from the middle of May though the middle of August.

After an interruption Thursday, the Vermont Housing Data website and the Vermont Housing Managers Association website resumed operation. 

Thanks for your patience!

After Tropical Storm Irene, there has been a lot of talk about how Vermont communities can take the lessons learned in the aftermath and plan better for future possible disasters. Similarly, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the federal government was prompted to help state and local governments as they prepared and planned for disasters.