affordable housing
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Group eyes more housing in county
The Addison County Regional Planning Commission this summer is taking a three-pronged approach to help create more dwelling opportunities in what is currently a super-tight housing market in…
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Housing expands with Firehouse Apartments in Bristol
A new crop of affordable housing units is taking shape in Bristol. Once completed, the Firehouse Apartments development will provide 20 mixed-income units, with the first tenants set…
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Two more towns eyeing housing relief
In the face of a statewide, ongoing housing crisis, officials in the towns of Lincoln and Monkton are looking at ways to boost housing opportunities in ways that…
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Affordable housing efforts take center stage
Two upcoming events will provide Addison County residents with opportunities to witness — and weigh in on — efforts to create more local affordable housing.
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Bristol explores zoning changes to boost housing
Bristol’s planning commission has spent the past several months exploring potential changes to the town’s zoning regulations that would help expand housing opportunities in and around Bristol’s village…
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Letter to the editor: Housing funds are still needed
In my 40-year career in Massachusetts with children and their families, I never knew any family that wanted to remain without a permanent home of their own.
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Ways of Seeing: Vermont must fix housing deficit
“Can anybody live in Vermont?” asked the two young boys who had been visiting us for a couple of summers in the 1980s.
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New housing in Middlebury wins $6M
The Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) on Monday awarded Summit Properties $6,075,405 to help drive down the costs of building 30-40 units of for-sale “workforce” housing.
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Nonprofits are building a case for housing
Local advocates for the homeless continue to battle for resources to assist one of the state’s most vulnerable populations, and they’ve developed another currency — to go along…
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Plan filed for big Middlebury housing project
The starting gun has officially been fired on the financing and review of a project that would bring 150-250 units of new mixed-income housing to Middlebury.
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Middlebury placed on fast track for housing
Middlebury has earned a Neighborhood Development Area, or NDA, designation from the state for a large swath of property in its core village area.
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Train brings steps toward big grants to plan housing
Three Addison County municipalities are well-positioned to receive a $100,000 grant to plan future housing, bike paths and other facilities that could dovetail with the new passenger rail…
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Historic city properties sized up for housing
Two historic West Main Street properties could at some point add much needed housing stock to the city of Vergennes — one probably sooner than the other, according…
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Top Ten 2022: Housing crunch worsens
Addison County’s — and Vermont’s — dearth of affordable housing has been well-chronicled during the past three decades. And 2022 added another sad chapter to a housing dilemma…
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State encourages building mid-priced homes
With many Vermonters feeling stuck because of the increasing costs of homes and the dire lack of availability, state and local officials have announced a new program to…
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Bristol looks for ways to build more housing
Bristol’s planning commission is about to begin a deep dive into the local zoning regulations in the hopes of identifying changes that would expand housing opportunities in and…