WASHINGTON, DC - March 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate’s green jobs subcommittee, has introduced legislation to encourage the installation of 10 million solar systems on the rooftops of homes and businesses over the next decade. more »

BURLINGTON, Vt., - March 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that he secured a $380,000 federal grant for a Vergennes senior housing project. more »

VERGENNES, Vt.- March 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — Governor Jim Douglas today awarded more than $630,000 in Community Development Block Grants to five Vermont communities. At a ceremony at the American Legion Post 14 in Vergennes, the Governor announced funding for an affordable housing project for the elderly, as well as money for improvements to make the Georgia and Bristol municipal buildings handicapped accessible. more »

Washington, DC - January 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development yesterday awarded $374,846.58 to two Vermont organizations to assist people who believe they have been victims of housing discrimination (see below data). more »

BURLINGTON, VT - January 13, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) went to the Salmon Run Apartments today to announce a project to install solar water heaters here and at three other Vermont affordable housing developments. more »

BURLINGTON, VT - January 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — The winter heating season is the best time to test homes for radon, a colorless, odorless gas present at elevated levels in about one out of every seven homes in Vermont. Prolonged exposure to radon is the second leading cause (after smoking) of lung cancer in the United States, and is responsible for more than 20,000 deaths annually. more »

MONTPELIER, Vt. - January 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — State officials are hoping members of the public will turn out to give their input about Vermont’s plans for spending millions of dollars in federal housing and economic development funds. more »

MONTPELIER, Vt. - December 22, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Vermont’s aging housing stock is inadequate, causing low-income households to spend more of their money on housing than they can afford, according to a report released today. more »

Washington, DC - November 5, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Rep. Peter Welch on Thursday voted to provide an additional 14 weeks of unemployment benefits to those hit hardest by the recession and to extend the popular First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit until the end of April. more »

Montpelier, VT - November 3, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — On Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13, the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board will present a rental housing preservation workshop at the Best Western Inn of Waterbury for non-profit housing developers. The workshop is sponsored by the Chittenden Bank and by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Workshop participants will examine affordable housing developments in Vermont with expiring federal and private funding and consider policy, financing and project development strategies for successful redevelopment. more »