Yesterday's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference received a good deal of media attention.
WPTZ-TV Channel 5 and Fox44 sent reporters and aired stories. A Burlington Free Press reporter also attended. WCAX-TV Channel 3 spoke with VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter earlier in the week on the station's "The :30" program. The Free Press and Rutland Herald/Times Argus also ran stories ahead of the event.
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As expected, we broke the previous attendance record for the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference yesterday. Four-hundred eighty people attended the event yesterday, breaking the previous record of 450 set in 2006.
We've made available some materials from yesterday's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference.
Out of the nearly 400 photos we shot at the event, we've selected about 60 and placed them on the conference Web site.
You can also read U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Sec. Shaun Donovan's complete keynote on the site, as well as listen to streaming audio of Governor-elect Peter Shumlin's noontime address.
We'll be passing along a link to streaming video of Sec. Donovan's keynote soon.
The Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) announced the TD Charitable Foundation has awarded the organization a $50,000 capital grant.
The grant, made in conjunction with TD Charitable Foundation’s “Housing for Everyone” competition, will help CHT implement an innovative energy pilot program to reduce the energy bills of owners of its shared equity homes.