The Shelburne Development Review Board has granted preliminary approval to Shelburnewood.

That proposed housing project, which we told you about earlier this week, would replace the Shelburnewood Mobile Home Park with a mix of affordable, work-place and market-rate housing.

The Board's 6-1 vote means project planners can move ahead to more detailed plans.

VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter joined Mike McNamara, Vermont Field Office Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, on cable access's "Vermont Housing and Communities" show earlier this month.

Some photos here from Champlain Housing Trust's block party last Friday, celebrating their new digs at 88 King Street, Burlington.

Thanks to Jon Shenton, Marketing and Communications Coordinator over at CHT.

Gov. Jim Douglas joined housing representatives, residents, local and state officials in cutting the ribbon on Meadowlane Apartments in Milton yesterday.

The project, originally built in 1980, includes 20 newly-renovated units and an additional 16 units of new affordable housing.