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Witness urges program evaluation, not a full new needs study, for farmworker housing in S.328
Summary
A Champlain Housing Trust witness told the House Committee on General Housing that an existing farmworker housing program has produced 90 dwellings serving about 360 workers with roughly $4.3 million spent; he and staff urged a program evaluation rather than a full new statewide needs assessment and offered to provide vetted replacement language for S.328 §9a.
The House Committee on General Housing heard testimony on April 8 about S.328’s farmworker housing report requirement, with Chris Donnelly of Champlain Housing Trust urging the committee to pursue a program evaluation rather than commissioning a full new needs assessment.
Donnelly, introduced by the committee chair as the first witness on the omnibus housing bill, said the program that followed a 2020 needs assessment has produced about 90 dwellings that serve roughly 360 farmworkers and that the program has spent approximately $4,300,000 to date. “We have invested in close to 90 different, dwellings that are serving at 360 different farm workers,” Donnelly said, summarizing results of the RFP process and subsequent implementation.
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