Sen. Patrick Leahy joined affordable housing developers and local, state and federal officials this morning to break ground on Thayer Commons in Burlington.

The project, in city's New North End, will create 33 new affordable apartments for seniors and 33 affordable apartments for families.

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization (CCMPO) will merge July 1.

CCRPC was created by 15 Chittenden County municipalities in 1966 and authorized by state law in 1968.

This is the second of many profiles we'll be publishing over the coming weeks shining the spotlight on VHFA's participating lenders.

This past Tuesday's Governor's Summit on Housing the Homeless was written up in the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.

Read the article online (subscription required).