Housing Crisis

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…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today applauded the Senate’s advancement of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), which focuses on the root cause of rising housing costs by cutting red tape, unlocking housing supply, lowering…

Bill would strengthen enforcement and lawsuits against companies that allow landlords to collude on rent prices  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance and Senate Judiciary Committees, today joined Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden…