We've completed our latest update to the "Vermont housing data profiles" section of the Vermont Housing Data Web site.

We've added:

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston has signed on as the latest sponsor of the 2010 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, coming to Burlington Nov. 18.

Signing up early gets your organization more bang for its buck. All sponsorships include your logo on the conference Web site.

Ludy Biddle, Executive Director of NeighborWorks of Western Vermont in West Rutland, published a piece in this weekend's Rutland Herald explaining the importance of foreclosure counseling.

"Not only are homeowners who receive foreclosure counseling 60 percent more likely to avoid losing their homes," she writes, "they are also more likely to receive a loan modification than homeowners who try to obtain a loan modification on their own, without foreclosure counseling."

Read the full piece on the Herald Web site.