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Windham Regional shares housing targets: region and town-level goals to 2050
Summary
Windham Regional presented regional and municipal housing targets provided by the Vermont Housing Finance Agency under the Home Act; for the region the 2050 range was cited as roughly 8,000–16,000 units and a local town range of about 77–151 units was discussed as an aspirational target, not a mandate.
Windham Regional staff reviewed housing targets the commission received from the Vermont Housing Finance Agency under the Home Act (2023) and explained how those regional numbers were apportioned to towns.
"For 2050 that's between 77 and 151 units," the presenter said when speaking about the municipal range used for plan exercises, and noted the regional total the state provided was approximately 8,000 to almost 16,000 units. He emphasized these targets are aspirational goals to guide planning, not mandates that require towns to build a set number of units.
The presenter explained the commission used town characteristics (year-round dwelling counts, presence of municipal water/wastewater, and infrastructure capacity) to distribute targets. He said Windham Regional and the state do not track actual unit construction at the municipal level: the targets are meant to inform planning chapters and recommended actions in town plans, not to create enforceable construction quotas.
