Definition

Municipal planning ordinances that require or incentivize developers to set aside a certain percentage of affordable housing units for low and moderate-income residents.

Bi-Town (Dover & Wilmington) Housing Committee

City of Burlington CEDO Housing

Housing-focused division of the City of Burlington Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO). Programs and resources include:

  • BIPOC affordable home ownership program.
  • Conducted Housing Summit to explore challenges and opportunities
  • Inclusionary Zoning to ensure inclusive and affordable housing
  • ADU resources
  • Low interest loan for home repair
  • Landlord assistance program
  • Access modification grants

Brattleboro Area Affordable Housing

Volunteer driven non-profit serving households in Windham County, Vermont and the bordering towns of New Hampshire with the goal to "increase, improve and maintain housing that is available to those in need." With no paid staff, all programs are administered by volunteers. Programs include:

  • Apartments-in-Homes
  • Home Improvement Program
  • Creative Community Housing Program

Brattleboro Area Housing Coalition

  • Established two warming shelters in the region before COVID. 
  • Brattleboro town removed density cap in residential housing. 
  • Brattleboro town reduced development review process.

Bradford Area Housing

  • Collaborating with different partners and property owners to crowdsourcing properties to repurpose, sell, develop just like land bank. 
  • Created a system for clear communication and meeting scheduling using doodle for scheduling, Google group email for committee updates and YouTube channel to share meetings with the general public and Google drive for document sharing. 
  • Organized Housing forum: Needs, trends and opportunities-to gather ideas and analyze and implement with housing and other area through creating working groups in different areas.
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