Vermont housing coverage at VTDigger
VTDigger reports on housing issues affecting Vermonters, including affordability, homelessness, development regulations, landlord and tenant protections and the state’s motel shelter program.
This page gathers our coverage of housing policy and community impacts, providing reporting and context on one of the state’s most pressing challenges.
‘A step forward’: Deep in the new federal housing law, changes to disaster recovery funding are brewing
Although the new law about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s long-term disaster recovery program leaves key questions open, experts say it moves in the right direction.
Middlebury taps new housing development tool
The state’s Community and Housing Infrastructure Program is designed to allow municipalities to finance essential infrastructure that supports new housing development without raising local property taxes.
Montpelier tackles housing shortage with talks of taller buildings and simplified zoning
Planners say development projects in the River District, including apartment buildings, can shape Montpelier’s future and that current zoning allows for six-story buildings but developers aren’t doing it.
Imminent closure of Fair Haven manufactured home park leaves residents with few options
Deferred maintenance is piling up at parks across the state, contributing to more parks going up for sale. Outright closures, like the evictions of residents at the Green Mountain Mobile Manor, are fairly rare.
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Housing Authority seeks Hartford-area land donations
The corporation has identified “job centers,” including Hartford, Rutland, Brattleboro and Montpelier, where it would like to place single-family homes.
Phil Scott signs bill that will restructure Vermont’s homelessness response
H.938 tries to better organize the fragmented system serving the roughly 4,000 people experiencing homelessness in Vermont.
Vermont’s low-income housing voucher programs begin to stabilize after more than a year of anxiety
Federal funding decisions have helped Vermont’s housing authorities out of an emergency posture. One is granting new vouchers to help people pay for apartments.
Burlington-area rental market cools off, bringing some relief for tenants
A dramatic jump in new apartments in Chittenden County and a dip in demand have contributed to the rising vacancy rate.
Affordable housing complex opens in downtown Waterbury
Three of the 26 new apartments are reserved for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and five are set aside for people exiting homelessness.
Hundreds of housing units in the works at closely-watched project in Burlington’s South End
With more than 200 units, the project is the beginning of “a new neighborhood being born out of a big parking lot,” said Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak.
Partial repeal of Vermont’s land-use law Act 181 heads to Gov. Phil Scott’s desk
The rollback is a win for a vocal coalition of rural landowners that sprung up this spring to protest the law.
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