Whether you are a first-time homebuyer or are looking to buy again...Knowledge is POWER! Join us for a free webinar to learn how to be a competitive and informed homebuyer.

Topics will include:

- Tips and tricks to succeed in homebuying

- How to qualify for a mortgage

- Working with a lender and realtor - Special assistance programs

- Where to get started.

Register today!

An opportunity for housing and conservation leaders to share how VHCB dollars are being put to work in communities across Vermont.

Join dozens of housing and conservation leaders at our annual Legislative Day to demonstrate the power of this coalition and importance of our work in helping communities thrive.

The day will include morning coffee in the cafeteria, remarks with Statehouse leaders in Room 11, testimony throughout the day, and lunch with lawmakers on your own.

More details on the schedule will be shared as we get closer to the event. To help you prepare, here are the talking points for this legislative session.

Disability Advocacy Day brings together people with disabilities, family members, advocates, service providers, and allies to raise awareness and advocate for disability rights in Vermont.

Join us for the 11th Annual Mental Health Advocacy Day on January 29th at the Vermont Supreme Courthouse Auditorium (9:00 am-12 pm – in-person or livestreamed) and the State House Capitol (12-3 pm – in-person).

Join us for a reception, readings, hands-on letterpress activity, and refreshments to close out the Fair Housing Exhibit presented by CVOEO, Young Writers Project, and A Revolutionary Press.

FREE - ALL WELCOME!

RSVP here to be entered to win a limited-edition print: https://sevendaystickets.ticketsauce.com/e/fair-housing-exhibit-reception-with-young-writers

Join us to learn more about Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity’s upcoming homes in Hinesburg! We will cover our application process and information about the program.

Please join the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) for the next Chittenden County Regional Housing Convening.
Chittenden County municipal planners, housing committees, community leaders, and more will come together to discuss where we are and where we’d like to go as it relates to housing in the region. This event will also serve as an opportunity to learn more and provide feedback on two key drafts related to housing in Chittenden County that are currently out for public comment through May 19: The Chittenden County Future Land Use map, and the Chittenden County housing targets. More information about both items is available at ccrpcvt.org/housing. 

The event is free, open to the public, and dinner will be provided. Register here »

The Burlington Community is honored to welcome Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

In Ken Cadow’s Gather, Ian loses his home through no fault of his own, illustrating how Vermont’s housing landscape can be unfair and exclusive.

Kahlia Livingston and Jess Hyman of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity discuss the roots of Vermont’s lack of affordable housing and describe potential approaches to reduce housing discrimination.

Finish out Fair Housing Month with some thoughts on how to move forward!

This is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Albany Public Library (supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities).

Join the Richard Kemp Center, the ACLU, the Vermont Human Rights Commission, the Land Access Opportunity Board, Vermont Legal Aid, and the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity’s Fair Housing Project to learn about the implications of changes in federal policy and the anti-discrimination programs and services available across Vermont. The Richard Kemp Center will also be unveiling Phase II of Growing Homes.

Reserve your free tickets here.

In response to persistent and worsening housing affordability challenges, the idea of “social housing” has been gaining momentum across the US. While the details differ, social housing proposals all call for creating permanently affordable housing while also expanding the public sector’s direct role in financing, developing, and/or managing projects; emphasizing broad inclusion by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status; and giving residents more control over their homes. In this half-day event, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and researchers will discuss both existing models of social housing in New England and new efforts to create affordable, high-quality homes. 

This event will be livestreamed!

Join this discussion to hear from Ana Mejia, Homeownership Specialist at the Windham & Windsor Housing trust and Julie Curtin, Director of Homeownership at the Champlain Housing Trust to discuss homeownership programs available through their organizations. We will examine the importance of accessible resources for homeownership and how it promotes affirmatively furthering fair housing.

To honor Sexual Violence Awareness Month and Fair Housing month in April, Survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their children are invited to Safe Roots Healing Collective for a HeART Housing Workshop. In this workshop, survivors and children affected by domestic and sexual violence can spend time in community creating what a safe and happy home means to them. Art supplies, snacks and some seedlings for plants (to empower our spaces to feel comforting) are provided. 

If you’re interested in attending,  interested please call the Voices Against Violence hotline at (802) 524-6575 or email Jaynell at jmunroe@cvoeo.org.

Join us for a conversation about the book On the Housing Crisis, by Jerusalem Demsas. This event is co-hosted by the South Burlington Affordable Housing Committee and the South Burlington Public Library. Learn about and discuss the causes and effects of homelessness and housing instability in South Burlington and Vermont. The discussion will be moderated by Jess Hyman of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity's Statewide Housing Advocacy Programs and by the Affordable Housing Committee.

Finding Housing focuses on strategies for overcoming barriers to finding housing (such as a past eviction, no landlord references or a criminal record), understanding the landlord's perspective and how to build a positive tenant-landlord relationship, and skills for conducting an organized housing search, including where to look.

This is a FREE workshop!

Join us in-person on campus at UVM Davis Center or join via Zoom for a FREE educational workshop discussing the protections and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act, the rights and responsibilities of tenants, and resources available if you experience illegal housing discrimination.

This event is for UVM-affiliated people only. A UVM email address is required for registration.

Join us on Tuesday, April 15, to learn more about Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity’s upcoming homes in Chittenden County! We will cover our application process and information about the program.

Join us on Saturday, April 12th, to learn more about Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity’s programs! We will cover our mission, volunteering, and our homeownership program.

A free kid’s craft will be available for ages 6+!

Join us for a FREE educational workshop discussing the protections and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act, the rights and responsibilities of tenants, and resources available if you experience illegal housing discrimination. This event will be held in-person at the Fletcher Memorial Library in Ludlow, Vermont!

Join us for a riveting conversation with Nate Lantieri, Research Coordinator for the Vermont Housing Finance Agency to discuss the most recent Housing Needs Assessment that was published last year. We’ll be examining what the collected data tells us about our statewide housing necessities.

With books being banned every day and information flooding our TV's and phones, we all know that reading is one powerful avenue for resistance. We'd like to invite our members from Redress communities across the country to join us for a virtual book club to discuss relevant readings pertaining to housing justice and grassroots organizing as a way to foster community, share resources, and collectively resist the injustices we face. There is no requirement to have attended a prior meeting, or to come to the meeting already having read the text as we will read it together.

The Community Legal Information Center (CLIC) is open to the public for in-person legal research and reference visits. CLIC resources include databases, Vermont legal source materials, a library of self-help books, and free online legal resources. Join CLIC Librarian & Coordinator Pamela Cartier for an overview of what CLIC offers and how public librarians can add these resources to their reference playbook. This event will occur during Fair Housing Month, and sources related to that will also be shared.

Join us for a conversation about Kenneth Cadow’s “Gather” with an opportunity to meet the author!

Baldwin Memorial Library is partnering with Blue Mountain Union School (BMU) for this community event.

Sustaining the Rent focuses on strategies to financially prepare for renting, including determining what "affordable" rent would be and comparing costs of apartments, and understanding how credit affects the ability to pay rent, as well as developing the knowledge and skills needed to track spending, build a budget, and find resources to help meet housing and basic needs.

This is a FREE workshop!

Tenant Skills includes the fundamentals of tenant rights and responsibilities, leases, security deposits, repairs, health code violations, terminations, evictions, fair housing and disability law.

This is a FREE workshop!

Join the Shelburne Housing Committee for a discussion of Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis By Daniel Herriges and Charles Marohn Jr. facilitated by Library Director Michael Hibben.

The book is available at the Pierson Library and on Spotify and Audible.

Join us for a conversation with Vanessa Bonebo, Executive Staff Assistant of the VT Human Rights Commission and Karin Ames, Housing Education Coordinator at CVOEO to discuss her experiences working as firsthand resources for tenants around the state dealing with housing barriers and illegal housing discrimination. They both do amazing work that is critical to addressing harms and trauma that stems from these egregious offenses.

Deconstructing Historical Patterns and Reimagining the Future of Housing

Please join us for the Fair Housing Month Kickoff event to start off a month full of fair housing education, advocacy, and community building. This event will include a reception with refreshments and a thoughtful presentation from our keynote speaker, Cashauna Hill of the Redress Movement. She will discuss the the history of housing discrimination in the United States and tools for mobilization at the local and state levels to create systems that lead to just access to housing.

This event is FREE and open to everyone! Come at 5:30pm for refreshments and to explore the Voices of Home exhibit; the presentation starts at 6pm. Reserve your tickets for this FREE event.

Live stream link

Presented in partnership with Northwest Vermont REALTOR® Association, the Land Access & Opportunity Board, and Fletcher Free Library.