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Let's Build Homes urges lawmakers to pass CHIP to pay infrastructure costs and speed housing production
Summary
Marill Weinberger, executive chair of the Let's Build Homes coalition, told the House Ways & Means Committee that the Community Housing Infrastructure Program would finance public infrastructure for specific housing projects, lowering a common barrier to development.
Marill Weinberger, executive chair of the Let's Build Homes coalition, told the House Ways & Means Committee that the Community Housing Infrastructure Program (CHIP) could unlock housing development by financing the public infrastructure that makes projects feasible.
Weinberger said the coalition includes more than 200 organizations statewide -- from affordable housing nonprofits and private developers to employers, utilities and philanthropic groups -- and that coalition members see CHIP as the single most consequential housing bill this session.
Why it matters: Vermont has been building far fewer homes than in prior decades, Weinberger said, and that shortage is a principal driver of rising costs and workforce shortages. CHIP would allow a…
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