Weatherize 3% of the homes in your community and help your neighbors reduce their energy bills by participating in the 2013 Vermont Home Energy Challenge. Efficiency Vermont, in partnership with the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network, is seeking local organizations to champion the Challenge in their communities and to sign up their towns to participate.

After a trough in 2009, volumes and median prices of primary homes in Vermont are on an upswing.  The median sales price jumped two percent in 2012 to $199,000, according to VHFA’s analysis of VT property transfer tax records processed by December 31, 2012.   This is almost as high as the state's peak of $200,000 in 2007 and 2008. 

Vermont's 2013 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count will take place next Tuesday, January 29 – Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The PIT count is a HUD-required annual count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless populations over the course of a 24-hour period.  

VHFA staff celebrated the new year last week with their traditional ugly sweater competition, Yankee gift swap and potluck lunch.