Champlain Housing Trust

Last week we celebrated the opening of Bay Ridge, a new neighborhood in Shelburne. We were joined by @welch.senate.gov, @balint.house.gov and Vermont Sen Majority leader Kesha Ram Hinsdale -- nearly 100 new permanently affordable homes in Shelburne, Vermont.
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Thanks -- these programs do run statewide, just not at the scale our people and communities need.

Applications open for nearly $68 million in federal flood recovery funding for Vermont State officials plan to direct more than 60% of the federal disaster aid — over $41 million — toward housing development.

State officials plan to direct more than 60% of the federal disaster aid — over $41 million — toward housing development.

The result is not ultimately about the workforce: it’ll mean more people hungry, more without access to health care, and more losing their housing. As dangerous, or more than, the bill congress just passed.

Housing Assistance Cuts Could Keep More Vermonters Homeless Facing a funding crunch, housing authorities across Vermont can't help as many people pay their rent. That's bad news for the state's homelessness crisis.

Another story on the loss of rental subsidy. The new budget proposal could make things even worse. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/housing...

For one Vermont family, losing their shot at a housing voucher could mean reentering homelessness - VTDigger Congressional cuts to federal rental aid have prompted Vermont’s largest housing authorities to stop issuing new Section 8 vouchers. The state’s nine local housing agencies estimate they need to shelv...

The loss of housing vouchers will take us backwards. This is an awful individual story, but it's only the tip of the iceberg.

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Greensboro Voters Reject Affordable Housing Project Despite a housing crunch, Greensboro residents shot down a plan to sell off their town hall so that it could be converted into 20 affordable units.

Just awful. Most signs point towards #nimby

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Affordable apartments open in Colchester as housing leaders fear federal cuts - VTDigger State housing leaders are celebrating the opening of 65 new units but worry that federal cuts may be coming to the systems that support affordable housing.

Celebration of new affordable housing, but storm clouds ahead

@vtdigger.org

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A photo of a man looking to his left while sitting on a bench. A headline reads “Supportive Housing Spotlights Challenges After Homelessness.” Photo by Thea Traff for The New York Times.

Permanent supportive housing has become one of the most common approaches to reducing chronic homelessness for Americans with mental illness and addiction. Residents and workers at a complex in the Bronx shared what life is like inside these buildings. nyti.ms/42o9jyO

CHT to lease former Sara Holbrook Community Center to ONE Arts Inc - Champlain Housing Trust Champlain Housing Trust and local nonprofit ONE Arts Inc announced today that they have reached an agreement to lease the building at 66 North Avenue in Burlington, the former home of the Sara Holbroo...

News!
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We are saddened by the news of the passing of Lois McClure, our longtime friend and steadfast supporter of CHT's work. We're thinking of her family this morning, and we're also thinking about how much she's done for Vermont.

Thank you, Lois.

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For Afghan refugees in Vermont, homeownership can become reality with new program Hundreds of Afghan refugees have settled in Vermont in recent years. Now, one of those families wants to make the state feel more like home by buying a house. And they’re taking advantage of a new par...

For Afghan refugees in Vermont, homeownership can become reality with new program @vermontpublic.bsky.social www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Opinion | The Growth in Homelessness Is an American Moral Failure Homelessness is a crisis borne of several compounded crises, a symptom of the varied ways our country is failing the most vulnerable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

Residents find home in new White River Junction apartments - VTDigger “It takes so much time for someone to come in from homelessness to four walls,” said Sonya Bartley, the main service coordinator for residents in the building.

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Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in U.S. Homelessness The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/u...

Our friends at DEW Construction shared this photo of Bay Ridge under construction in Shelburne. Ultimately there will be 68 apartments and 26 condos, all permanently affordable.

As 2024 winds down we are hopeful, excited for the opportunity ahead, and have immense gratitude for our community.

This is wrong. Our state policy, effectively, is “go sleep outside” in December. And this is for people who *qualify* for the benefit.

Bill Schubart: The 3 Hs — housing, hunger and health care - VTDigger A basic goal of civil government is that its citizens should have a secure place protected from the elements in which to live and perhaps raise a family.

"Are we really okay with our neighbors freezing to death in winter?"

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Expansion of federally subsidized public housing may offer a path out of L.A.’s homelessness crisis A new USC analysis looks at the link between unsheltered homelessness and public housing in more than 150 metropolitan areas.

housing ends homelessness.

Developer breaks ground on long-awaited affordable housing project in Newport  - VTDigger RuralEdge plans to turn a former convent and school, as well as two other properties, into housing in the Northeast Kingdom city.

This is great news. Congrats Rural Edge. vtdigger.org/2024/12/12/d...

Vermont loosened Act 250 rules for housing. Here’s where developers are responding. - VTDigger Lawmakers had hoped the temporary carve-outs would help ease Vermont’s acute housing shortage. Developers are using the new exemptions in at least a dozen locations across the state.

Progress
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Voices Against Violence unveils new healing-focused shelter in St. Albans Voices Against Violence unveiled its second shelter for survivors of domestic violence Friday night.

Glad to have the opportunity to do this with such a critical community partner www.samessenger.com/news/voices-...