The Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition is seeking to raise $1,500 for its "Save Our Homes" campaign aimed at encouraging the Vermont Legislature to adopt affordable housing preservation legislation.

The funds will go toward producing an information piece in support of a Town Meeting Day ballot item for Burlington voters to send the word to the Statehouse.

Approximately 2,600 affordable housing units in Vermont are in danger of converting to market rate rentals or condominiums over the next several years. Nearly 300 are in Burlington.

The Vermont Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development (DEHCD) will hold a public hearing regarding the third phase of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

The hearing will be tomorrow from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Calvin Coolidge Conference Room, National Life Building, 1 National Life Drive in Montpelier.

NSP funds the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Program (HARP) that allows VHFA to purchase foreclosed properties, renovate them, and resell them to income-eligible Vermonters using grants to assure the homes stay affordable in the future.

For information on tomorrow's hearing, contact DEHCD's Ann Karlene Kroll at 802.828.5225, [email protected].

Vermont Public Radio (VPR) has put online yesterday's "Vermont Edition" program covering the topic of subsidized housing units in Vermont at risk of expiring.

VHFA Executive Sarah Carpenter was a guest on the show.

The station's also put online a story reported by "Vermont Edition" Producer Patti Daniels and culled from yesterday's program.

Listen to "Vermont Edition" online and hear Daniels's report, too.

VHFA has listed for sale a home at 51 Water St., Orleans. The price for the three-bedroom, two-bath house is $89,000, after a $20,000 grant.

This house is the latest to come through the Housing Acquisition & Rehabilitation Program (HARP), where VHFA acquires foreclosed properties from banks, renovates them, and resells them to income-eligible Vermonters.

View the listing now.