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Vermont program expands developer training to turn local interest into housing
Summary
State officials and partners told the House Committee on General & Housing that the Homes for All program has drawn nearly 300 statewide enrollments and is offering workshops, a six-week developer academy, one-on-one technical assistance and an online community of practice to help local small-scale developers build housing.
Montpelier — State housing officials on Friday outlined a multi-part program aimed at increasing small-scale housing production across Vermont by training local residents to become developers.
"This is one of those rare times I get to come in without an ask and just tell you about good news and work that we're doing," said Sean Gilpin, director of the Housing Division at the Department of Housing and Community Development, as he introduced the Homes for All initiative to the House Committee on General & Housing.
Homes for All is designed in three linked phases: a toolkit of development materials, a phase-2 training program of one-day workshops and a six-week online developer academy, and a phase-3 catalog of predesigned "802 homes" intended to simplify design and construction. Presenters said phases 2 and 3 are running concurrently.
Ornella, a co-lead with program partners, told the committee that after the program launched publicly in…
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