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Under the Dome: Housing - Emergency Shelter, Affordable Housing, and Act 250 Reform 04/29/2024

Host Bobby Lussier, CCTV's Development Director, speaks with Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Representative Emilie Krasnow about housing.

To contact your local representative, you can find their contact information on the State's website. 

Burlington Mayor's Press Conference: HUD Administration Visits the Elmwood Shelter Pods in Burlington - House America Progress 11/01/2022

From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:

HUD leadership joins Mayor Miro Weinberger and community partners to mark progress in rehousing homeless and creating more affordable housing for the city under HUD’s House America Initiative.

House America leverages funding from the American Rescue Plan, federal, state, and local resources to re-house at least 100,000 households experiencing homelessness nationwide and add at least 20,000 new units of affordable housing into the development pipeline by December 31, 2022. Within those national goals, the City of Burlington set and has achieved local re-housing and unit creation goals.

Miro Weinberger, Mayor, City of Burlington

Juana Matias, Regional Administrator, HUD New England

Kerri Duquette Hoffman, VT Agency of Human Services – Field Services Director

Mike Monte, Champlain Housing Trust – Executive Director

Mayor Weinberger Visits Elmwood Emergency Shelter Community Construction Site 10/12/2022

From the Mayor's Office:

Mayor Miro Weinberger visits the Elmwood Emergency Shelter Community construction site where Pallet is assembling the shelter pods. Media is invited to tour the site and pods with the Mayor, who also gives an update and answers questions.

For more information visit: burlingtonvt.gov/CEDO/emergencyshelter

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