Episode 33

Finding a first home in a second home market

August 13, 2021: Housing availability, affordability, and wages are only a few of the contributors to Vermont's tight housing market. But what role, if any, does a large second home or short-term rental market play in people's struggles to find safe, healthy, and affordable housing within their community?  

This week, Benjamin D. Frost of the New Hampshire Finance Authority (NHHFA) joins the conversation. 

New Hampshire Finance Authority (NHHFA): https://www.nhhfa.org

CNT's Housing & Transportation Affordability Index: https://www.cnt.org/tools/housing-and-transportation-affordability-index

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.