The cascade effect

December 13, 2019: What does Vermont's housing crisis look like from the perspective of housing advocate and mortgage lender? Maura Collins, executive director of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, digs into what "crisis" means and potential solutions.

FOR MORE INFORMATION on REDLINING we recommend:

TV segment - Adam Ruins Everything: The Disturbing History of the Suburbs (truTV):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e68CoE70Mk8

Book - "The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America", by Richard Rothstein:

wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/

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Olga Peters

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...".

Emilie Kornheiser

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.