The Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) is a finalist for the World Habitat Awards, sponsored by the Building and Social Housing Foundation, an international organization dedicated to innovation in affordable housing.
The awards are given as part of the United Nations' World Habitat Day and recognize "practical and innovative solutions to current housing needs and problems." Two staff members from the U.K.-based foundation will visit Vermont next week.
The special Fair Housing Month edition of Mike McNamara's HUD show we mentioned in yesterday's post ("April is Fair Housing Month") is now available for listening online.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Rinnai America Corp. recently announced a voluntary product recall of certain direct-vent wall furnaces.
VHFA is helping bring the recall to the attention of homeowners — and owners and managers of multi-family properties — who might have such furnaces installed in their units.
So far Rinnai has received nearly a dozen reports of carbon monoxide leaks from the furnace models in question, but no injuries have been reported.
For more information about the model numbers affected and how to to get further help, visit the recall's Web site.
April 11 marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the federal Fair Housing Act by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In recognition of Fair Housing Month, celebrated each April, the Vermont Human Rights Commission and the Fair Housing Project of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) are planning a number of events around the state.