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.

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

Join the Vermont Human Rights Commission, CVOEO Fair Housing Project, and Migrant Justice for a day full of Fair Housing related discussion and activities. We’ll be sharing fair housing resources and information about illegal housing discrimination, providing testimony in legislative committees, and A Revolutionary Press will be onsite making bookmarks with hand-set type and on a hand-operated letterpress!

The goal of this 6-month series is to help rural libraries better serve people in their communities who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. Guest Dr. Julie Winkelstein will facilitate this series whcih will comprise instruction, resource sharing, discussion, and the option to create an action plan over the course of the series. Library staff are welcome to participate collaboratively with other local library staff, trustees, or community partners.

Join Richmond Free Library Trustees, Friends, and Staff for a free community dinner with Friday Food Affair, and a community art project. Part of our Vermont Reads programming, built around the book Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow.

HeART & Home Art Kits provided by CVOEO as part of Fair Housing Month.

Thinking of buying a home? Get informed! Come to one of our Free Homebuyer seminar series.

Thinking of buying a home? Get informed! Come to one of our Free Homebuyer seminar series.

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.

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.

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.

Join Burlington Tenants United for a Craft Night in the Fletcher Free Library Community Room!

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.

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer prize-winning author, presents her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Express what home means to you and have meaningful discussions about housing justice.

Public debate on housing hosted by UVM’s Lawrence Debate Union.

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!

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.

Vermont Human Rights Commission is putting on a virtual Fair Housing Training!