Brattleboro Area Affordable Housing

Volunteer driven non-profit serving households in Windham County, Vermont and the bordering towns of New Hampshire with the goal to "increase, improve and maintain housing that is available to those in need." With no paid staff, all programs are administered by volunteers. Programs include:

  • Apartments-in-Homes
  • Home Improvement Program
  • Creative Community Housing Program

Brattleboro Area Housing Coalition

  • Established two warming shelters in the region before COVID. 
  • Brattleboro town removed density cap in residential housing. 
  • Brattleboro town reduced development review process.

Bradford Area Housing

  • Collaborating with different partners and property owners to crowdsourcing properties to repurpose, sell, develop just like land bank. 
  • Created a system for clear communication and meeting scheduling using doodle for scheduling, Google group email for committee updates and YouTube channel to share meetings with the general public and Google drive for document sharing. 
  • Organized Housing forum: Needs, trends and opportunities-to gather ideas and analyze and implement with housing and other area through creating working groups in different areas.

30,000 to 40,000 more Vermont homes needed by 2030

To meet expected demand and normalize extremely low vacancy rates, Vermont will need 30,000-40,000 more year-round homes by 2030.  This means adding 5,000 to 6,700 more homes to Vermont's primary home market each year, well above the 2,100 homes that the state has been generating.

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