Now through the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, Nov. 18, we’re spotlighting speakers planning to participate in the day’s bevy of workshops. Next up: Joe Belden, Deputy Executive Director, Housing Assistance Council (HAC).

HAC is a national nonprofit provider of loans, grants, research, information, training and technical assistance for affordable rural housing. Previously a research associate at HAC, Joe's also worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on Capitol Hill, and for several policy-oriented research organizations in Washington, D.C.

Tomorrow's "Vermont Edition" on Vermont Public Radio will cover green historic preservation.

They'll talk about a green rehabilitation project underway at Vermont Technical College in Randolph, and visit an efficient passive house Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity is building in Charlotte.

Vermont Edition can be heard at noon and 7 p.m.

Approximately 70-80 additional housing units are needed in Hinesburg, Vt., to meet demand among current and prospective residents, according to a June 2010 report for the Hinesburg Affordable Housing Committee prepared by consultants from Development Cycles and Housing Strategies.

The majority of the units called for are rental housing for households earning less than the area median income and “age-appropriate ownership housing for seniors at a range of prices.”

Peter Shumlin and Brian Dubie, the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, still plan on speaking at the joint meeting of the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC) Sept. 22.

On Friday, the VAHC reported Dubie had canceled due to a "scheduling snafu." The following day, they reported Dubie's campaign manager, Corry Bliss, had rearranged the candidate's schedule to accommodate the meeting.