Gov. Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) today announced recipients of $4,591,000 in federal community development block grants.
The funding will support two mixed-income housing developments; continued funding for the five home-ownership centers throughout Vermont to support affordable home repair financing and housing counseling services for low-and-moderate income homeowners; provide funding to renovate a historic farmhouse into childcare and community space, including two units of affordable housing; provide funding to support a regional healthcare facility’s heating plant; planning for ADA improvements to a historic theater; and an enhancement of RHP funding.
Federal block grant funding was awarded to these 11 projects:
- Town of Brattleboro – $440,000 CDBG supplemental award for Windham Windsor Housing Trust to administer The Green Mountain Home Repair Loan Fund to provide affordable home repair financing and housing counseling services to eligible homeowners in Windham, and Windsor Counties.
- Town of Essex – $300,000 RHP supplemental award to support the Vermont Foundation of Recovery Essex Recovery Housing project for individuals, and individuals with families, in recovery from substance use disorders.
- Town of Lyndon – $400,000 CDBG supplemental award for Rural Edge to continue operating the revolving loan fund to provide affordable home repair financing and housing counseling services to eligible homeowners in Essex, Caledonia, and Orleans Counties.
- City of Montpelier – $360,000 CDBG supplemental award for Downstreet Housing & Community Development to continue operating the revolving loan fund to provide affordable home repair financing and housing counseling services to eligible homeowners in Washington, Orange, and Lamoille Counties.
- Town of Pittsford – $450,000 CDBG award to support renovations to a former farmhouse to include childcare space for 26 children, community meeting room, and two affordable apartments.
- Town of Randolph – $54,000 CDBG award to develop architectural plans to make the Historic Playhouse Theater ADA compliant.
- Town of Rockingham – $250,000 CDBG award to support the Greater Rockingham Area Services to replace their oil heating system with a biomass woodchip system and make associated renovations to the building.
- Town of Shelburne – $700,000 CDBG award to support the redevelopment of a former motel into a new mixed-income and mixed-tenancy neighborhood with 68 units of affordable rental housing and 26 shared equity homeownership units.
- City of St. Albans – $540,000 CDBG supplemental award for Champlain Housing Trust to continue operating the revolving loan fund to provide affordable home repair financing and housing counseling services to eligible homeowners in Franklin, Chittenden, and Grand Isle Counties.
- Town of West Rutland – $500,000 CDBG supplemental award for NeighborWorks of Western Vermont to continue operating the revolving loan fund to provide affordable home repair financing and housing counseling services to eligible homeowners in Rutland, Addison, and Bennington Counties.
- Town of Windsor – $500,000 CDBG award to support the construction of a new building with 25 mixed income rental apartments.
For more details on these CDBG and RHP awardees and projects visit the DHCD website.
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more two hundred fifty thousand dollar one bedroom apartments what a joke public private partners all insider dealing agenda 2030 tax payers get screwed
More like “commune” housing.
Why is all this housing needed?
For whom?
Illegal immigrants? More Refugees? More out-of-state Homeless? Addiction & Halfway Housing in lieu of imprisonment?
Answer? Yes to ALL!
Eventually, most housing in VT will be “affordable” as those who relocated here with the goal of living safe & peaceful lives after working their azzes off to afford a nice life as per what “evil” capitalism has afforded them – will all leave, as will then Vermont’s tax base, as will many more businesses.
Great job VT!
You bought into this “workforce housing” scam which is NOTHING MORE than Obama’s socialist plan for communal/high density housing for his “liberal world order”.
Beautiful Vermont is almost certainly done for.
According to the allotments for this $$, even historic buildings & farmhouses are being transformed into low-income housing & publicly-funded day care centers.
So tired of “grants” and “Federal funds” etc. etc. It’s all our tax dollars getting pissed into the wind compliments of the elected officials. Ukraine, illegals, climate summit, wind mills, solar, wuhan, School budget waste, town workers, fire departments etc. etc. etc. Imagine if these things and the countless other programs went away; would it impact your life? We are getting screwed and I for one am sick of it. We need conservative business people in government, not silver spoon, indoctrinated limousine liberals.
Is anyone keeping score of how much Federal pork has poured into this State, handed over to non-profits and NGOs, and the results are no better than before the pork arrived? Actually, the problem is exacerbated or stagnated. The laundry services run 24/7 – just name the issue, the millions of dollars said to have dropped into it, and no one seems know where any of it goes – though many have a good idea.
Claim there’s a problem. Call it a crisis in need of bureaucratic government intervention. Incentivize the root of the problem. Exacerbate the problem so it grows to a level only big government has the resources to deal with. Create additional government committees and allocate additional funds that perpetuate the problem and further empower and reward top level government. Ensure media outlets like wcax, wptz, seven days and vermont digger play along.
we will change your form of government thru the grant making process study metro 13 13 this is an address