Colchester is a haven for manufactured housing in pricey Chittenden County

Alterra Mountain Company recently announced a capital plan of more than $400 million for the 2025-2026 season, a significant and recurring theme is investment in workforce housing.

“What that means for people in the farmworking community is that we’re obligated to stay on jobs where our rights aren’t being respected and we’re being abused, just because the farm is the only place where we’re able to get housing,” a Migrant Justice member said at the event.

Downstreet Housing & Community Development and the Central Vermont Refugee Action Network (CVRAN) on Wednesday announced the opening of Randall Apartments, a newly renovated building that now provides four permanently affordable homes for New American families.

Spurred by drug abuse, mental illness, and possibly by state housing policies, homelessness has tripped since 2020. Will Trump’s plan work?

Most of a $68 million state and federal grant package announced yesterday will help flood-stricken communities build housing outside of flood-prone areas.

City officials in Montpelier cleared a homeless encampment near the downtown transit center this week, citing mounting safety concerns and violations of local ordinances that prohibit overnight camping in public parks. The action comes just weeks after Vermont’s pandemic-era motel voucher program officially ended, displacing hundreds of vulnerable Vermonters — and sparking renewed debate about homelessness, governance, and community responsibility.

Failure to extend the program will leave Vermonters living in cars, parks, sidewalks and riverbanks, they said.

Portability will now only be permitted to areas where the Voucher Payment Standards are less than or equal to VSHA’s highest standard.

It looks like a mobile home park. The state says it isn’t. The folks in this Williston neighborhood are frustrated they can’t access the help that classification would afford them.

A new program to replace the state’s current emergency housing programs is up for a vote in the House this morning.

“If we saw this many deaths in any other program, there would be a desire for change,” Samuelson said.

In the Vermont county of Chittenden, where the median listing price is $576,600, a staggering 91.7% of homeowners are considered equity-rich.

The draft report recommends legislation to approve just cause eviction, rent control (AKA ‘stablization), a rental registry, tenant right to counsel, and more funding for housing supports. 

The organization alleges that the family shelters championed by the State are much more expensive than the hotel voucher program.

“And, because of our country’s long history of racist and exploitative laws and policies, many of which continue today, Black Vermonters are unhoused at a staggering rate compared to white Vermonters,” the report states.

The Blue Sky Estate previously listed for $6,275,000.

Vermont state and local governments lack the cash to continue the Housing First policy for the growing numbers of homeless people.

A motel already in use for homeless housing since the pandemic has been purchased by a non-profit for use as a ‘homeless hotel.’

Pet-friendly activities, lodging, hotels, restaurants, and cafes, -Vermont has all it all.

Tier 3 consists of “critical resource areas” where any activity within will more than likely trigger Act 250 jurisdiction and would, by some estimates, cover about 18% of the state’s land mass. 

Landlords won’t be allowed to make tenants leave just because their lease has expired, a proposed Montpelier city charter change says.

Climate-change minded lawmakers need to be ready to provide more housing to ‘climate refugees,’ an influential state senator argues.

With winter coming, the Scott administration says it’s time to get flood victims housed – with or without state and local government oversight.

A new homeless shelter will open near the Ret. 2/302 roundabout in Montpelier later this month.

The Scott administration hopes adding more housing to the market will lower one of the root causes of homelessness: exorbitantly high rental rates.

The homeless camp being investigated as the possible site of a school bus window shooting isn’t the only tent community in Vermont’s capital city.

The median list price for a home in Vermont is $447,250. The median price is $275,000 in this city…..

“We’ll train the next generation of plumbers, electricians, and carpenters, and renovating this home will benefit Newport and its future homeowner,” said Scott.