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.

Last week President Obama signed into law the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act.

The new law, which became effective May 20, provides protections for tenants living in foreclosed properties.

A White House release pertaining to the law says, "One of the often overlooked problems in the foreclosure crisis has been the eviction of renters in good standing, through no fault of their own, from properties in foreclosure.