Fair Housing Month Events Calendar
We are pleased to host, co-host, and promote housing- and inclusive community-themed events all over Vermont as part of Fair Housing Month.
Want to add your event to this calendar? Email fhp@cvoeo.org with the event details, website and social media links, and graphics. Want to host a Fair Housing Month event, but don’t know where to start? Check out ways to get involved here!
Fearless Homebuyer Seminar
Thinking of buying a home? Get informed! Come to one of our Free Homebuyer seminar series.
Fearless Homebuyer Seminar
Thinking of buying a home? Get informed! Come to one of our Free Homebuyer seminar series.
COMMUNITY EVENT: First-Time Home Buyer Fair
Are you interested in buying a home as a first-time homebuyer? Come to this FREE fair to learn about the path to becoming a homeowner.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Environmental Impacts of Segregation Webinar
On May 1st, The Redress Movement will be hosting the next installation of their webinar series: "Lessons from the Field" with a discussion around the environmental impacts of segregation.
Book Discussion: Homelessness is a Housing Problem
Join us for a conversation about the book Homelessness is a Housing Problem, by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Albern. This event is co-hosted by the South Burlington Affordable Housing Committee, CVOEO, and the Library.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Tenant Power Craft Night!
Join Burlington Tenants United for a Craft Night in the Fletcher Free Library Community Room!
COMMUNITY EVENT: Fair Housing in Williston
Join us to view a short film about housing issues and then participate in a discussion with Williston Planning and Zoning staff and the Community Justice Center about local housing issues and actions.
COMMUNITY EVENT: GBMRC Presentation by Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer prize-winning author, presents her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
HeART & Home Community Art Workshop
Express what home means to you and have meaningful discussions about housing justice.
COMMUNITY EVENT: A Conversation on Housing
Public debate on housing hosted by UVM’s Lawrence Debate Union.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Homebuying 101
Curious about how to buy a home? Join us for a FREE in-person event to help you understand tips and tricks to succeed in the homebuying process, how special programs could help, and where to get started!
Chittenden County Regional Housing Convening
Please join the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) for the next Chittenden County Regional Housing Convening on Thursday, April 18th at 5:30pm at Hula (50 Lakeside Ave., Burlington)! This event is free, and dinner will be provided.
Fair Housing Training
Vermont Human Rights Commission is putting on a virtual Fair Housing Training!
COMMUNITY EVENT: Black Artist Market
Support local artists at this April’s Black Artist Market!
POSTPONED: JAM Art Exhibit
A multimedia installation exploring our relationship to home and the evolution of housing, deconstructing that relationship, and envisioning a new one.
KEYNOTE EVENT! Rothstein Presentation & Discussion + Happy Hour!
Fair Housing Month kickoff! The Keynote event with Richard & Leah Rothstein, authors of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. included a presentation, robust discussion, and book signing, followed by a happy hour.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6qr8GYHjo
Community Art Exhibit
An art exhibition in celebration of Fair Housing Month that will be displayed in Burlington City Hall for the entire month of April presented by CVOEO and Arts So Wonderful.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Tenant Power Craft Night!
Join Burlington Tenants United for a Craft Night in the Fletcher Free Library Community Room!
JUST ACTION Book Club Session 2
Just Action BOOK CLUB Session 2! In preparation for our KeyNote event to kick off Fair Housing Month, we are inviting you to join us in this book club series to discuss Just Action. Sign up today to join us to reflect on our readings together, and to start identifying themes and action steps to guide our work as housing advocates and active community members.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Film Screening of Just Getting By
Just Getting By—a new documentary film be Bess O’Brien is a sweeping, and yet intimate look at the lives of Vermonters who are struggling with food and housing insecurity.
COMMUNITY EVENT: Film Screening of Just Getting By
Just Getting By—a new documentary film be Bess O’Brien is a sweeping, and yet intimate look at the lives of Vermonters who are struggling with food and housing insecurity.
JUST ACTION Book Club Session 1
Just Action BOOK CLUB Session 1! In preparation for our KeyNote event to kick off Fair Housing Month, we are inviting you to join us in this book club series to discuss Just Action. Sign up today to join us to reflect on our readings together, and to start identifying themes and action steps to guide our work as housing advocates and active community members.
Home Creators Expo
Come learn from builders, planners, housing innovators, and more about what ADUs are and how to make them happen! Come to the Hartford Area Career and Technical Center on Saturday May 6.
Bennington Free Library: Fair Housing Feedback
A drop-in event to learn about Fair Housing, provide feedback to the Vermont State Fair Housing plan, and connect with BROC for housing resources & help.
Affordable Housing Discussion
Join the City of South Burlington Affordable Housing Committee for a discussion inspired by the book Fixer Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing System, by Jenny Schuetz. Come talk with your neighbors about ways to increase stable, decent-quality, affordable housing.
https://southburlingtonlibrary.org/1585/what-is-affordable-a-conversation-about-housing
Movie Night at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
FREE refreshments and books to take home!
Please register in advance for the Happy Hour: https://sevendaystickets.com/events/fair-housing-month-movie-night-the-pursuit-of-happyness-4-29-2023
BIPOC Centered Homebuyer Group with The Root and Windham & WIndsor Housing Trust
The The Root Social Justice Center and Windham & Windsor Housing Trust have partnered to create the BIPOC Centered Homebuyer Group as a part of the Root's Healing Series. The Group will start with an orientation to the series on April 29.
Fair Housing Feedback, Brownell Library Essex
A drop-in event to learn about Fair Housing, provide feedback to the Vermont State Fair Housing plan, and connect with CVOEO for housing resources & help.
Bent Northrop Library HeART&Home Reception
Please join Bent Northrop Memorial Library for light refreshments as we enjoy an Art Show of submissions to our HeArt & Home Community Art Project!
Vocabulary of Home: A Conversation on How We Talk About Housing
In celebration of Fair Housing Month, artist and housing advocate Corrine Yonce shares her insights about our housing vocabulary - featuring images from her recent public art installation at King St Laundry, lessons from HeART & Home Fair Housing Month responses, and anecdotes from the field. This presentation will be followed by a discussion about how we talk about homelessness and its impacts with Sarah Russell from CEDO and an open Q&A.
How are you celebrating Fair Housing Month? Let us know here!