This summer we logged miles across Vermont—Derby (7/7), Rutland (7/24), St. Albans (8/13), Quechee (8/19), Barre (9/2), Wilmington (9/9), and Williston (9/22)—to listen. The aim was simple: show up in communities across the state, share what we’ve been working on, and hear directly what’s helping...

Earlier this year, Vermont took a major step forward in addressing our housing shortage by creating the Community and Housing Infrastructure Program (CHIP). This program allows communities to use future property tax revenue from new housing developments to pay for the infrastructure those homes n...

Act 181, passed last year, created a new set of rules to modernize Act 250 and make it possible to exempt some parts of the state from Act 250 review when it was duplicated by review in local municipalities. We at Let's Build Homes see this as a real opportunity to eliminate unnecessary barriers ...

As part of our ongoing engagement around the state to offer a housing abundance perspective to the Act 181 mapping project currently underway, Let's Build Homes today sent a letter to the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission outlining our feedback on the initial maps.While CCRPC was the...

Let’s Build Homes, Vermont’s leading pro-housing coalition, has launched a powerful new television ad on WCAX drawing attention to the state’s severe housing shortage and offering a vision for the future. The ad highlights a range of Vermonters, including a young family, a Northeast Kingdom teach...

It is a core principle of the LBH coalition that Vermont must continue to invest public resources to create permanently affordable housing for people with economic barriers preventing them from securing housing, or for those who are unhoused or disabled.We supported housing investments in the Bud...

Ahead of next week's public hearing, Let's Build Homes has weighed in on Montpelier's new comprehensive City Plan through a lens of housing abundance. Long-term comprehensive plans are the guiding documents that push municipalities to acheive their goals, and it's critical that those goals are we...

The cost of housing in Vermont is too high, driven by fierce competition for the few homes that are available to buy or rent. This lack of available housing options makes it difficult for young Vermonters to put down roots and stay here, for families to grow, and for seniors to age in place in th...