Over the past 18 months, VHFA, the Vermont Housing Managers Association (VHMA) and other statewide housing providers and advocates have been working on the concept of developing a universal rental application that could meet the basic needs of most housing programs in Vermont.  A streamlined approach has been requested by rental applicants, case managers and social service agencies working with rental applicants for years.  The need to simplify the process was identified in June at Governor Shumlin’s Housing the Homeless Summit and is even more pressing with the housing issues following the devastation wrought by Irene.

Interested in joining VHFA’s team?  We have immediate openings for an Administrative Assistant and SQL Server Report Writer and Analyst.   VHFA is an equal opportunity employer. 

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A forum will be held tonight, Wednesday October 19, 2011, at 6PM by the Mobile Home Residents for Equality and Fairness (MHREF).   MHREF is  a new resident organization of Vermonters displaced by Irene, who have witnessed first-hand the acute affordable housing crisis, and unique challenges in removing their destroyed homes in order to rebuild, relocate, and recover before impending winter.

The meeting will be held at  Old Labor Hall, 46 Granite Street, Barre, Vermont.  

Tropical Storm Irene damaged or destroyed public records, changed the course of rivers and streams and sprouted an unexpected thicket of legal issues that will have to be solved by the Legislature.   

In an effort to identify some of those issues and propose solutions, Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell announced Tuesday that he has appointed the executive director of the Vermont Bar Association, Bob Paolini, to lead a task force that will have proposals ready for lawmakers when they return to Montpelier in January, the Associated Press reported yesterday.

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