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Housing & Homelessness Alliance of Vermont

The Housing & Homelessness Alliance of Vermont (HHAV) works toward a future in which all people living in Vermont have safe, stable, affordable homes and if homelessness occurs, it is brief, rare, and non-recurring.

Deadline for Comments on OEO Warming Shelter Position Paper Extended to August 15

The deadline to provide comments on the OEO Warming Shelter Position paper has been extended to Friday, August 15. Feedback is requested from a broad array of state and community partners on the following documents: DRAFT ONLY – Request for Warming Shelter Work Plan DRAFT OEO Position Paper Warming Shelters These documents are meant to provide …

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Webinar on Growing Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will host a free webinar discussing findings from its forthcoming report, No Safe Place: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities. The webinar will take place on Thursday, July 17 from 2pm – 3pm. No Safe Place provides an overview of criminalization measures in effect across the nation, and looks at trends in the criminalization of …

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OEO’s Shining a Light on Poverty Series: Discussion on Building Financial Security for Your Clients

In honor of 50 years of community action in Vermont, the Office of Economic Opportunity is hosting a series of one-hour discussions on poverty every month in 2014.  The seventh of these discussions will feature Kori Hattemer, Program Manager for the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED). The focus of this month’s discussion will be on how to …

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