Episode 37

2025 Vermont Housing Needs: Make sure you're solving the problems that actually exists

September 13, 2024: Leslie Black-Plumeau from VHFA joins this week's discussion.

Leslie is the Research and Communications Relations Director at VHFA and helped put together the Vermont Statewide Housing Needs Assessment 2025-2029 on behalf of the VT Department of Housing and Community Development.

The assessment's key findings outline how the state's housing shortage is pinching communities now and possibly into the future.

HUD requires the assessment for state that receive federal housing dollars.

Leslie summarizes the report in this post: https://vhfa.org/news/blog/vermonts-2025-2029-housing-needs-assessment-completed

Read the full Housing Needs Assessment here: https://accd.vermont.gov/housing/plans-data-rules/needs-assessment

HousingData.org is a useful source for housing information: https://www.housingdata.org

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.