U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter and officials from many other housing organizations attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the Ellis Block in Springfield today.

A quick reminder for owners and managers of subsidized rental properties in Vermont: You can post your vacancies online, free, at the Directory of Affordable Rental Housing (DoARH).

With Hurricane Earl bearing down on the Northeast this weekend, this might be a good time to make sure the DoARH contains all your current vacancies.

The 2010 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference is coming Nov. 18. We've just opened the doors for online registration and are looking for your help to publicize the event.

Snag one of the banners below (right-click on it and "Save as ..." somewhere on your hard drive) and post it on your Web site. Make it a hotlink to the official conference Web site: http://www.vhfa.org/conference.

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Vermont Public Radio's "Vermont Edition" from yesterday is now available for listening online.

The program, titled "A New Approach to Downtown Planning," is devoted to "form-based code."

Listen online.