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Commerce agency seeks $4 million for housing repairs, repurposes flood funds for manufactured-home repairs
Summary
The Agency of Commerce and Community Development asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to carry forward $4 million for the Vermont Housing Improvement Program (VHIP), $800,000 repurposed for manufactured-home repairs (MYR), and $150,000 for international market representation; staff also outlined a recent $67 million CDBG-DR award and requested $19 million spending authority for FY27.
Lindseay Curley, Secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, told the Senate Appropriations Committee that housing and economic-growth investments in the House budget are critical to addressing affordability and workforce needs.
Curley asked the committee to carry forward three targeted investments included in the House version of the budget: $4 million in base funding for the Vermont Housing Improvement Program (VHIP), $800,000 in one-time funding for the manufactured housing repair program (MYR) sourced from a prior emergency-board appropriation, and $150,000 in one-time funding for an international office contract to support…
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