News broke this afternoon of a new federal initiative to help housing finance agencies, such as VHFA.
The plan is part of the Obama administration's Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan.
Read about it at the U.S. Treasury site.
The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) has put together a nice collection of resources pertaining to the plan.
The Valley News published a piece yesterday looking at workforce housing in Vermont/New Hampshire's Upper Valley.
In a nutshell, "Home prices are still beyond the means of many people in the Upper Valley."
VHFA's Sarah Carpenter, Maura Collins and Leslie Black-Plumeau provided some opinions and statistics for the story.
As a coda to our announcement a couple weeks ago regarding VHFA's top mortgage loan originators, today we named our top five participating lending institutions for fiscal year 2009:
While Vermont doesn't have any urban area as populated as Portland, Ore., we might have something to learn by reading a recent report published by Living Cities.
"A Human Connection: How Portland, Ore., Made a Big Dent in Chronic Homelessness" tells the story of how Portland reduced its population of chronic homeless by 70 percent between 2005 and '08.
The key to their success? Establishing a "human connection" between the city's chronically homeless and public.