In the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, the financial page highlights the Housing First program. Author James Surowiecki explains how programs like Housing First and Rapid Rehousing have significant economic benefits. At the end of the article he states “The success of Housing First points to a new way of thinking about social …
Registration for the 2014 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference is now open! The biannual conference will be held Wednesday, November 19th at the Hilton Burlington. Barry Zigas, Director of Housing Policy for Consumer Federation of America and a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Housing Commission, will be present to give the keynote address along with a full day of …
This is a quick reminder for next Tuesday’s Annual Joint Meeting of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition and the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness. After lunch, the VAHC Annual Meeting and the VCEH monthly meeting will be held concurrently in different rooms at the same location: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM …
Morningside Shelter will hold its fourth annual Hike for the Homeless fundraiser on Saturday, October 4 (rain date, October 5), on Mount Wantastiquet in Hinsdale, NH. There will be two start times, 10am and 12:30pm, each beginning at the Mountain Road trailhead in Hinsdale (an immediate left after the second bridge on Route 119 when …
The 2014 Year End Report for the Emergency Solutions Grant program is now available. Vermont’s Emergency Solutions Grants program, administered by the Vermont State Office of Economic Opportunity, provides a blend of state and federal (HUD) funding to support operations, staffing and homelessness prevention and re-housing assistance at approximately 40 non-profit emergency shelter, transitional housing …
The Coalition’s monthly meeting, and joint meeting with the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC), as well as the VAHC’s annual meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 16 from 9:30AM – 2:00PM at the Baptist Fellowship Church in Randolph. This being an election year, we have invited the two major party gubernatorial candidates to speak. …
