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House committee reviews dashboard to track Vermont housing targets and unit growth
Summary
VHFA, the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Center for Geographic Information demonstrated a new dashboard that uses E‑911, municipal assessing and other sources to track progress toward targets set under the HOME Act and Act 181; presenters cautioned the data have known lags and classification limits.
The House Committee on General & Housing heard presentations on a new statewide dashboard intended to track where housing units are being added and how the state is pacing against targets set under recent legislation.
Maura Collins, executive director of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, told the committee that housingdata.org aggregates census, tax department, MLS and other sources into town‑level profiles but that “VHFA’s data on housingdata.org usually appears to look about 2 years old” because most of the underpinning sources lag. Collins said the dashboard work aims to give legislators more timely information about “who is renting, owning, where, and how.”
“Nine times out of ten, the data we use will be lagged, but it’s the most accurate recent information we have from the census,” Collins said, adding that the state contracted VHFA to carry out several housing needs assessments for the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD).
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