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!

Community Art Exhibit
An art exhibition in celebration of Fair Housing Month at Burlington City Hall presented by CVOEO, Young Writers Project, and A Revolutionary Press.
Visit the City Hall Gallery April 21 through May 31 to see these creative expressions, vote for your favorite, and learn more about housing justice and equity.

Fair Housing Exhibit Reception
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!

Green Mountain Habitat: Shared Equity Homeownership
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.

Chittenden County Regional Housing Convening
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 »

2025 Diversity Speaker Series
The Burlington Community is honored to welcome Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Going Home: Gather and Fair Housing
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).

Housing Justice: What Happened to the Fair Housing Act?
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.

The Evolving Landscape of Social Housing in New England
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!

Fair Housing Friday: Fair Housing in Homeownership
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.

Window Between Worlds Activities!
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.

Book Discussion: On the Housing Crisis by Jerusalem Demsas
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 Workshop
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!

Fair Housing “Know Your Rights” 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.

Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity: Shared Equity Homeownership
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.

Green Mountain Habitat 101
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+!

Fair Housing “Know Your Rights” Workshop
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!

Fair Housing Friday: Let’s Crunch the Numbers: Addressing the Vermont Housing Landscape
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.

Redress Movement Book Club
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.

Overview of the Community Legal Information Center at VT Law & Graduate School
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.

Home is Where We Gather
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 Workshop
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 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!

Escaping the Housing Trap Book Discussion
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.

Fair Housing Friday: What Do Tenants Need?
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.

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

Voices of Home Exhibit
Voices of Home is an audio-visual storytelling project launched in 2015 by Corrine Yonce when she served as an Americorps VISTA volunteer with the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (now the Housing & Homelessness Alliance of Vermont). This exhibit brings together work from two of Yonce’s collaborative efforts, Voices of South Burlington Community Housing and Voices of Decker Towers.
Visit the Fletcher Free Library during opening hours (MON, THURS, FRI & SAT 10am-6pm; TUES & WED 10am-8pm; SUN noon-6pm) to view the exhibit.

Fair Housing Awareness Day!
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!

Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Rural Communities: How Libraries Can Help - Series
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.

Friday Food Affair Dinner & Community Art Project
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.

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.
How are you celebrating Fair Housing Month? Let us know here!