A beautiful, new ranch-style home in St. Johnsbury and fully-renovated historic home in Rutland are for sale to qualified buyers at greatly reduced prices. The Housing Acquisition & Rehabilitation Program (HARP), administered by VHFA, helps qualified home buyers purchase beautifully restored and energy efficient homes.
About 3.5% of Vermont’s population moved out of the state in 2012-2013—about the same number as those moving in, according to Census estimates. This means that the number of people moving in and out of the state had no net effect on the state’s total population.
The average aging baby boomer plans to “age in place” which will create new levels of demand for remodeling of the currently inaccessible homes they live in, confirms a recent report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has become a “silent crisis” says a new report from the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families.