To call Edna Fairbanks-Williams an affordable housing advocate is to give her only a fraction of the credit she earned during her life spent defending Vermont's poor and underprivileged.

Edna died yesterday in a car accident not far from her Hubbardton home. She was 77.

Thanks to the latest three organizations to sign on as sponsors of the 2010 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference:

• Barre Housing Authority
• NBT Bank
• NeighborWorks® America

Signing on early as a sponsor guarantees you'll get the biggest bang for your buck.

We’ve just completed our latest update to the Directory of Affordable Rental Housing (DoARH) at the Vermont Housing Data Web site.

The DoARH now contains detailed information on 12,894 units.