Fair Housing Friday: “Is Building More the Cure?”

Featuring Bor Yang, Executive Director of the VT Human Rights Commission; Owiso Makuku, CEO of Main Street Landing and VT Affordable Housing Coalition Steering Committee Member; and Elizabeth Bridgewater, Executive Director of Windham & Windsor Housing Trust.

Our last #FairHousingFriday of Fair Housing Month 2022 left us with a lot to consider. Featuring Bor Yang, Executive Director of the VT Human Rights Commission; Owiso Makuku, CEO of Main Street Landing and VT Affordable Housing Coalition Steering Committee Member; and Elizabeth Bridgewater, Executive Director of Windham & Windsor Housing Trust, we discussed how relying on development alone won’t ensure housing opportunities for the communities with the greatest housing needs in Vermont. This conversation highlighted how housing opportunities are not equally accessible to all low-income Vermonters and presenters shared tools and policy ideas that could be considered to ensure housing equity and housing opportunities for our most vulnerable Vermonters

Fair Housing Fridays are a discussion between affordable housing advocates, community leaders, policymakers, and service providers around housing inclusivity. These interactive conversations are a space to reflect on what we are doing in our community that is working to further housing equity and what policies out there might we consider to do better. Fair Housing Fridays are an opportunity for audience members -people passionate and curious about housing, but not necessarily with a formal housing background- to ask questions.