Significant erosion in renter incomes over the past decade has pushed the number of households paying excessive shares of income for housing to record levels, a report this week by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies confirmed.

A recent study by VHFA found that thousands of residents of the East Central Vermont region face extraordinary challenges finding housing that is both affordable and located near their jobs and needed services.

Next to housing expenses, transportation costs are the second-biggest budget item for most households.  Unfortunately, there hasn't been an easy way to fully factor transportation costs into decisions about where we live and work.

Vermont’s home values increased and its homeownership rate remained constant since the recession —two unique trends in comparison to other states in New England and the U.S., according to an American Community Survey brief from the Census Bureau released last month and covered recently by