President-elect Barack Obama named New York City Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development Shaun Donovan next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Read Donovan's bio at the NYC Department of Housing and Preservation Development site.
Friday afternoon, we posted our 200th entry to Housing Matters.
Here are some statistics about the blog's first several months online:
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VHFA's holiday card comes courtesy of VHFA Loss Management Specialist Polly Thibault.
Polly has painted original artwork for VHFA's holiday card for the last several years.
This year, VHFA has "gone green," choosing to send nearly 1,000 partners our holiday wishes electronically.
All of us at Vermont Housing Finance Agency extend our best wishes for your holiday season and for the year ahead.
VHFA is participating in the Lund Family Center's "Adopt-a-Family" program this holiday season.
The program matches organizations, families or individuals with needy families in the Burlington area that don't have the resources to celebrate the season the way others might.
An initiative of VHFA's Community Awareness Program, the Agency was matched up with a young couple and their 6-month-old son. So far, staff members have donated nearly all of the 36 items on the family's wish list.