Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) and HowardCenter will rehabilitate a property on Burlington's St. Paul Street to provide housing for 16 residents living at Lakeview, a property on North Avenue recently sold by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vermont to Burlington College.
Permits from the City of Burlington have been approved and work began last week.
HowardCenter will provide the same services at the new location as it did at Lakeview.
Homeownership rates in the United States, especially among younger households, have been declining since their peak in 2004, according to recent analysis by the National Home Builder's Association.
VHFA wondered whether Vermont was experiencing the same decline.
We've just added nine more homes to our list of properties available for sale through VHFA's Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Program (HARP).
The homes are "Coming soon," which means they're currently under renovation and will be available for sale soon.
Read more about HARP ("VHFA offers homes for sale; listings online").
Households that include people with disabilities are more likely than others to have very low-incomes, pay more than half of their income for rent, and have other housing problems, such as living in inadequate or overcrowded housing, according to the U.S.