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Goal: A healthier regional balance of affordable housing in
each community in the greater Burlington region, proximate to jobs and affording
mobility and choice to low income residents, is achieved.
Five-Year Focus:
- Assist in the development of a workforce housing allocation plan to
encourage the creation of new affordable rental and ownership housing units
in suburban communities.
- Develop new housing for disabled persons and others with special needs in
all Chittenden County communities.
- Urge the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) to conduct an analysis of the potential legal implications
of zoning and permitting laws and procedures in Chittenden County,
especially with regard to possible disparate impacts on protected classes
under state and federal fair housing law.
- Support the conducting of a Chittenden County focused fair housing audit
of business practices to determine the degree and extent of fair housing law
violations perpetrated against individuals in several key protected classes.
- Urge other municipalities to create housing rehabilitation programs for
maintaining their stock of older rental housing.
- Encourage the CCRPC to promote the concept of municipal housing trust
funds as a way to raise funds for low and moderate-income homeownership.
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Urge the CCRPC to
deny any municipal development plan that fails to include an affordable housing
provision with specific production goals and urge every municipality to conduct
a build-out analysis for future housing development.
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Urge the CCRPC to facilitate
voluntary "core compact" whose member communities agree to take
certain threshold measures, e.g., create a housing trust fund, increase zoning
density, waive impact fees, or reserve infrastructure capacity to encourage
affordable housing development, and to have no residential phasing.
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Urge
CCRPC to facilitate regional cooperation on issues of water and sewer as a means
of developing more affordable housing in communities without adequate
infrastructure capacity.
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Urge CCRPC to assist all 18-member communities with
identifying land appropriate for new housing development and suggesting zoning
changes that encourage the development of more affordable housing.
- Encourage the
Vermont State Housing Authority (VSHA) to increase - or, at a minimum, not
to reduce - the number of Section 8 vouchers in Chittenden County.
The City expended Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG) and/or HOME funds on the following projects and
programs in program years 2003-06 to further
the priority of pressing regional solutions to housing issues:
| Project Title
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Relation to Consolidated Plan
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Program Year |
CDBG Funds Expended
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HOME Funds Expended
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Other Funds Leveraged
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Projected Accomplishments |
Actual Accomplishments |
| Burlington Housing Initiatives Program
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Sliding scale loans for emergency home repairs,
grants for residential accessibility modifications, free paint and
special projects grants for homeless shelters |
2004 |
$133,331 |
$ 886,837 |
$ 2,701,500 (including $1,104,000
in Section 108 loans) |
Pursue policy-related
implementation strategies for this priority |
Housing Targets Task Force of the
Regional Planning Commission has set goals for each county
municipality New Chapter 117
allows for accessory use apartments in any residential community
regardless of local density restrictions |
|
2005 |
121,574 |
$580,681 |
$924,960 |
Pursue policy-related
implementation strategies for this priority |
Affordable housing under
development in Williston, Milton and Charlotte |
|
2006 |
$0 |
$0 |
$0 |
Pursue policy-related
implementation strategies for this priority |
Most Chittenden County local
governments have adopted CCRPC housing targets and are taking action
to create affordable housing |
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| Lake Champlain Housing Development Corp. |
Organizational support for program delivery costs and for
project costs of nonprofit
housing developers |
2003 |
$25,000 |
$0 |
$6,707,000 |
Complete construction and
lease up the Market Place Apartments, 160 units of affordable
housing off Shelburne Rd. |
Completed and fully leased up |
| $0 |
$0 |
$0 |
Construct 20 units of affordable
rental housing in Shelburne |
Under construction |
| 2004 |
$0 |
$0 |
$3,770,000 |
Complete construction of 20 units
of affordable rental housing in Shelburne |
Completed and fully leased up |
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Page last updated
April 04, 2008
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