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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.

Tomorrow: VCEH Monthly Meeting in Randolph

We hope you can make it for tomorrow’s Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness meeting in Randolph. Here are the logistics: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Vermont Tech Enterprise Center 1540 VT Route 66, Randolph, VT We encourage you to attend the meeting in person, but if you are unable to, please dial-in at 1-866-244-8528 and use the participant access …

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Public Saves When Homeless Hospital Patients Housed

The Economic Roundtable recently published a report showing a reduction in public costs when chronically homeless hospital patients are placed into permanent supportive housing.  The National Low Income Housing Coalition has more: A new report published by the Economic Roundtable, shows that placing high cost homeless hospital patients into permanent supportive housing can significantly reduce annual public and …

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VPR’s Vermont Edition Covers Emergency and Transitional Housing Issues

Yesterday’s Vermont Edition took a look at problems of homelessness in Vermont and the difficulty of finding affordable and safe emergency housing for families in need.  The program focused on the new Harbor Place temporary housing facility, spending issues with emergency housing vouchers, as well as discussing other issues concerning emergency and transitional housing. VPR’s Jane Lindholm spoke spoke …

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America’s Homeless Kids Crisis: Vermont Sees Big Jump

New report from The Atlantic highlights the spike in homelessness among American schoolchildren: The number of homeless students in the United States has hit a record high, according to new data from the Department of Education. The raw numbers are shocking: in the 2011 school year, 1,168,354 homeless children were enrolled in preschools and K-12 programs. Even more disturbing …

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