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Housing board seeks FY24 budget language change to fund homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Summary
At a Tuesday committee meeting, Holly Major of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board asked lawmakers to amend FY24 budget language so VHCB can use part of a $10 million appropriation to support permanent supportive housing for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, citing a returned $3.9 million and recommendations in the Act 69 "Road Home" report.
Holly Major, director of policy and special projects for the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB), told a legislative committee Tuesday that VHCB could use returned FY24 funds to help build permanent supportive housing for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) if the budget language is broadened.
Major said the 2024 Legislature appropriated $10,000,000 to VHCB to expand shelter capacity and permanent supportive housing. VHCB committed those dollars to community projects across the state, but one project that had planned to rely on HUD Continuum of Care funding for operating subsidy lost that federal support after a change in federal policy. That shift, Major said, made the project infeasible as designed and freed up $3,900,000 that would return to VHCB.
"If the FY24 budget is…
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