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VHCB Awards $2.9 Million to Provide Public Access to Water, Conserve Farmland
and Historic Buildings, and Create New Homeownership and Rental Housing Opportunities

VHCB Awards $9.3 Million to Construct and Rehabilitate Housing in Brattleboro, South Burlington, Randolph, and Hartford, and to Conserve Land in Orange and Chittenden Counties

VHCB Awards $4.7 Million in State, Federal, and Housing Bond Funds to
Create Housing, Conserve Farmland and Natural Areas, and Protect Water Quality

VHCB’s Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program Awards $264,169 for Water Quality Improvements on Dairy Farms

VHCB to Receive $3.6 Million in Federal Funding for Farmland Protection

VHCB Celebrates 30 Years of Community Investment Across Vermont; Awards $5.2 Million to Construct and Rehabilitate Housing and to Conserve Land

Agreement Reached for Affordable Homeownership at Cambrian Rise
Developer Eric Farrell and Champlain Housing Trust plan up to 60 permanently affordable condominiums in two phases

VHCB Commits $5.33 Million in State and Federal Funds to Create, Acquire and Rehabilitate 158 Homes in Six Towns: Senior and Family Housing, New Construction and Historic Restoration

VHCB Will Use $35 Million in Bond Funds to Address Vermont’s Housing Shortage

VHCB’s Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program Awards $407,834 for Improvements on Dairy Farms

VHCB AmeriCorps Members and Staff Team Up for Service Day Projects in Richmond, Huntington and Williston

Nearly 3,000 Acres Protected in Rutland County: Fish & Wildlife Dept.’s Largest Conserved Land Project in Fifteen Years

VHCB Grants to Promote Community Gardens and Cooking Classes at Affordable Housing Sites

VHCB Announces Grant Awards for New Rental Housing, Rental Rehabilitation, and Farmland Conservation

Governor Scott Announces $35 Million Housing Initiative - VHCB to Lead the Effort

Vermont House Evaluates Proposed Roadmap for Ending Homelessness

VHCB Grants Address Water Quality and Help Farmers Transfer Farms to the Next Generation

Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program Tackles Water Quality: Awards $65,000 in Dairy Improvement Grants - New Grant Round this Fall - Apply Now! Information sessions in Middlebury and St. Albans 10/17

New Affordable Apartments Open in Hinesburg - Community celebrates first affordable family rentals with ribbon cutting at Green Street Apartments

VHCB Among First in the Nation to Begin Administering $3 Million from the New National Housing Trust Fund

VHCB Awards $4.59 Million for Land Conservation, Recreation and Home Ownership    

$15,000 Available for New Food Access Projects at Affordable Housing Developments: RFP

The Nature Conservancy Purchases Colchester Land to Improve Water Quality in Lake Champlain

VHCB Issues RFP for Roadmap to Reduce Homelessness

VHCB Awards $4.06 Million for Rental Housing, Homeownership and Land Conservation 

Brattleboro Co-op Plaza and Canal and Main Housing Recognized with 2015 American Institute of Architects/HUD Secretary’s Housing and Community Design Award for Creating Community Connections

VHCB Commits $3.953 Million to Create and Rehabilitate 220 Homes in 8 Towns

Senator Leahy Brings Program HOME

Governor Shumlin and New England Governors Unite to Support HOME

Safford Commons, New Rental Housing Development in Woodstock, Fills in 10 Days

Restored Historic House to Provide Affordable Housing in Putney

VHCB Awards $5.2  Million to to Create and Rehabilitate Affordable Housing and Conserve Farmland, Recreational Access and Forestland

VHCB Awards $3.08 Million to to Conserve Farmland, Recreational Access and Forestland

Owner of Sweet Rowen Farmstead Buys Land with Help from Vermont Land Trust

VHCB Awards $319,800 in Newest Round of Grants to Vermont Dairy Farms

VHCB Awards $2.06 Million to Develop and Rehabilitate 236 Affordable Homes
in Milton, Brattleboro, Colchester, Randolph and Bennington

Three Farms Conserved in Franklin County
Conservation Will Help in Transferring Farms to the Next Generation

St. Johnsbury History and Heritage Center - St. Johnsbury's new home for historical treasures
WCAX story by Julie Kelley

Harrington Village and the Wright House in Shelburne Village Celebrate Opening with Governor Shumlin

VHCB and the Center for an Agricultural Economy to Host Emerson National Hunger Fellows

VHCB Announces $384,831 in Dairy Improvement Grants

VHCB Awards $4.6 Million in Farmland Conservation Grants

VHCB Awarded $,1473,017 Grant for Program Serving Vermonters with HIV/AIDS

Commonwealth Dairy provides $328,000 to VHCB Farm & Forest Viability Program for New Dairy Grants Program

Energy Efficient Manufactured Home Unveiled in White River Junction

VHCB Awards $1.67 Million in State and Federal Funding to Conserve almost 700 Acres of Farmland and to Protect a Community Garden in Burlington

Manufactured Housing Innovation Project in GreenWire (National Energy and Environmental Policy News)

VHCB Invests $5.1 Million in State and Federal Funding to Protect 2,100 Acres Farmland, and
Conserve 3,100 acres Habitat and Recreational Lands in Ira, Poultney, Alburgh, Westminster & other Vermont Towns

Vermont Awarded $2.3 Million to Protect Children from Lead Poisoning

VHCB Presents Awards to Housing & Conservation Heroes at 25th Anniversary Celebration

Waterbury Recovery Efforts Get a Boost with $1 Million VHCB Grant Award

EPA Recognizes Brattleboro Food Co-op and Housing Development with 2012 Smart Growth Achievement Award

Barre Town Forest Conserved: 355 acres with public trails and watershed protected

Govenor Shumlin and Congressional Delegation Announce $1.7 Million HUD Grant to VHCB for Healthy Homes Program