housing committees

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
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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.
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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.
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Local Housing Committees in Vermont

Housing committees can play an important role in community-based approaches to local housing needs. These groups, whether they are formal municipal committees, informal citizen discussion groups, or anything in between, can document existing housing stock, assess housing gaps, and influence local policy.

Community activist

Housing committee membership

Often, the same few people are working on multiple campaigns and projects in a community. While it is always valuable to reach out to the community's strong activists and leaders, it is also valuable to gain new perspectives and increase the capacity of other community members to organize and envision housing. Some ways to conduct a wider recruitment strategy include:

Community activist
Municipality
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