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."
VHFA Policy & Planning Manager Maura Collins will present testimony regarding the recently-published Vermont Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) to the Vermont House General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee tomorrow morning at 9:30.
Maura authored the report, along with VHFA Research Analyst Leslie Black-Plumeau, under contract by the Vermont Department of Economic, Housing and Community Development (DEHCD).
Hickok & Boardman Group Services has signed on as the latest sponsor of the 2010 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference.
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The Office of Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell (pictured) recently contacted nearly 30 landlords requesting they demonstrate compliance with Vermont's lead law.
The letters, mailed to 27 landlords in Chittenden and Washington counties, are just the latest round of requests Sorrell has sent.
"We have already sent letters to landlords in 10 counties and there was an 18% increase in lead compliance filings in 2009," Sorrell says. "Hopefully, that trend will continue."