The Winooski Housing Commission serves to advise the City Council on implementing the Housing section of the City’s Strategic Vision, where Winooski will "ensure a mix of quality housing that maintains and enhances Winooski’s unique sense of place and supports the needs of the entire community".
At their June 28, 2023 meeting, the Selectboard approved establishing a Williston Housing Committee to further the goal of providing housing in Williston that is affordable to households across a broad range of income levels, including people with low- and moderate-income levels (affordable housing).
The Committee has an advisory role concerning the use of the Housing Trust Fund. The Committee will advise the Planning Commission concerning housing policy for land use and will take an active lead in delivering community engagement and outreach regarding housing issues.
The Keys to the Valley Initiative was undertaken by three regional planning commissions – the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission of New Hampshire, and the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional and Mount Ascutney Regional Commissions of Vermont. The three commissions, called the “Tri-Commission”, cover 67 communities on both sides of the Connecticut River of the greater Upper Valley.
One of the local housing coalitions, or local Continua of Care (CoCs) tasked with administering homelessness services locally throughout Vermont. Serving Windsor County towns of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish, Chester, Ludlow, Plymouth, Reading, Springfield, Weathersfield, Weston, West Windsor, and Windsor; and Windham County towns of Grafton, Londonderry, Rockingham and Windham
The Shelburne Housing Committee was created in 2016 as a subcommittee of the Shelburne Planning Commission. Its goal is to collect, organize, and analyze data in order to most effectively advise the town’s Planning Commission on the creation of more affordable housing.
