The 26th annual National NeighborWorks Week runs this Saturday, June 6, through June 13.

During NeighborWorks Week, local NeighborWorks organizations mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers, businesspeople, neighbors, friends, and local and national elected and civic leaders in a week of neighborhood change and awareness.

They rehab and repair homes, paint and landscape properties, conduct neighborhood tours, recognize successful partnerships, and host events that educate, train and inform.

June is National Homeownership Month (NHM).

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) started NHM in 1997 as National Homeownership Week, a time to focus on the importance of homeownership.

In 2002, the event was expanded to a month.

More recently, HUD has reduced its focus on the event — the HUD Web site doesn't mention this year's NHM — but that hasn't stopped plenty of others, such as the American Bankers Association (ABA), from continuing to focus on homeownership during the month of June.

Vermont Rural Ventures’ $30 million award of federal stimulus money was covered in this morning’s Brattleboro Reformer.

You can read the article online.

VHFA has an immediate opening for our General Counsel position. Read a detailed job description on our Web site.