Affordable Housing

BURLINGTON, VT — Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined the Champlain Housing Trust to celebrate the groundbreaking of 30 new permanently affordable condominium homes for sale to low-income households in Burlington’s Cambrian Rise neighborhood. A majority of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine), John Curtis (R-Utah), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in introducing the Build American Efficiency Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that…

New legislation would exempt small, rural housing developers from paying unreasonable income tax on grants they receive to help address Vermont’s housing crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this…

A GROUP OF state and local politicians (including U.S. Sen. Peter Welch and Gov. Phil Scott in the middle), affordable housing advocates (Gus Seelig next to Welch), Middlebury College officials (Interim President Steve Snyder on left) and developers on Monday each lifted a shovelful of…

Participants Discussed the Barriers to Building Housing Quickly and More Affordably in Vermont  VERGENNES, VT – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) brought together housing developers, construction industry experts, and local and State leaders in Vergennes to discuss barriers to building housing quickly and more affordably in Vermont.…