Our friends at Smart Growth Vermont in Burlington have a job opening for a Program Director.
You can see the full job description on their Web site.
Smart Growth Vermont is a non-profit organization that works to develop creative land use and development policies to increase prosperity and protect Vermont's distinctive landscape.
Considering the unprecedented economic downturn focused on the housing market, VHFA wanted to better understand the values of the homes underlying its single-family mortgages. It’s clear Vermont has among the lowest delinquency and foreclosure rates, but how VHFA-financed properties were faring was important to understand.
The Agency hired a third-party expert in home valuation, First American Core Logic, to provide an unbiased estimate of the value of VHFA’s active single-family portfolio. The results were astounding:
George Demas, VHFA's new General Counsel, started Aug. 10.
He comes to the Agency from the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration (BISHCA) in Montpelier.
George has been working with VHFA's exiting General Counsel Elizabeth Drake to get up-to-speed on Agency affairs.
Welcome, George!
Last week developers broke ground in Essex Junction on what will become Village Haven, the state's first designated "neighborhood" under the new Vermont Neighborhoods law passed last spring.
Dousevicz Inc. of South Burlington plans to build 18 two- or three-bedroom single-family homes and six duplex homes on the property.
The houses will sell for $258,000 to $320,000.
Vermont Neighborhoods exempts certain neighborhoods from Act 250, the state's land use law. Eligible neighborhoods must be built in or adjacent to designated downtown areas meeting VHFA affordability requirements.