Each year, Vermont Finance Agency (VHFA) sells Vermont Affordable Housing Tax Credits to local financial institutions to fund affordable homes throughout the state. These homes will be sold to low- and moderate-income Vermonters (Homeownership Credits) and will help fund down payment assistance (DPA credits) for first-time homebuyers. This year, TD Bank, Union Bank, Passumpsic Bank, Northfield Savings Bank, and Peoples Trust Company purchased a total of $4.625 million in tax c
          
  
            Fair Housing Month in Vermont Promotes Awareness with Free Community Events
      
        
        
        
        
          
  
            
April is Fair Housing Month and the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) is excited to join community advocates and housing partners in Vermont to commemorate the 1968 passage of the Fair Housing Act.
          
  
            VHFA: Building on the Past, Advancing Affordable Housing in Vermont
      
        
        
        
        
          
  
            
On April 11, 1974, then Governor Thomas Salmon signed legislation creating the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA). As the years progressed, and Vermont’s housing landscape and community needs changed, VHFA’s programs evolved.
          
  
            Conversion of Historic School into Affordable Apartments Celebrated by VHFA and Other Project Partners
      
        
        
        
        
          
  
            
Community members gathered Monday, March 18, 2025 at the historic Ward 5 School in Barre for a grand opening of nine new apartments created in the former elementary school. The event celebrated the permanently affordable apartments and an additional 18 rehabilitated affordable apartments on Bromer Street, as a part of the larger Granite City Apartments development project.