Woodstock Community Trust

08/12/2021

Thanks to our friends at Twin Pines for bringing more affordable housing to Vermont!

08/05/2021

Megan Rudy, an orthopedic trauma nurse at Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center, was in a hospital room recently when a physician asked the patient about life at home. Among the questions: Have you ever had housing instability, or not been able to pay your rent, or not had a place to live?

Although she wasn't the one being asked, Rudy reflected that her own responses would have surprised her just a short time ago, when the idea of housing instability hadn't occurred to her.

"I could literally check the box for 'homeless with two children,'" Rudy, 41, said of her own situation. She had to leave her rented home in Woodstock in mid-June when her landlord moved back in, and while she found a house nearby to buy, the closing isn't until the end of August.

Kyle Tatsak and Miquelle Thurber love living in Stowe, where there are miles of trails for walking their two dogs. They go snowboarding and rock...

08/02/2021

Great show last night with Myra Flynn-Wills and Paul Boffa at Music by the River - Myra Flynn & Paul Boffa hosted by Pentangle Arts, Sustainable Woodstock and Woodstock Community Trust

Check out the sound you missed if you weren't in the audience.

Myra FlynnWith Special Guest Paul BoffaMusic By The River hosted by Pentangle ArtsEast End Park, Woodstock, VT July 30, 2021Photos of Myra: https://photosbyn...

07/15/2021

The Vermont State Housing Authority (VSHA) has been allocated $110 million in federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act to administer the Vermont Emergency Rental Assistance Program (VERAP).

Thu, 07/15/2021 - 2:11pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont State Housing Authority (VSHA) has been allocated $110 million in federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act to administer the Vermont Emergency Rental Assistance Program (VERAP). Th...

07/14/2021

A Vermonter would need to earn more than $23 per hour to afford a typical two-bedroom rental, according to the latest report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. But renters in Vermont make on average about $14 per hour.

A Vermonter would need to earn more than $23 per hour to afford a typical two-bedroom rental, according to the latest report from the National...

05/24/2021

We are thrilled that the state plans to invest in Missing Middle Homes, just like we do!
“The remaining $149 million will be stood up over the next three years in the form of affordable and mixed-income housing developments, newly renovated apartments in formerly vacant rental properties, and new “missing middle” housing for moderate-income families.”

Thanks to federal leadership, we now have significant stimulus funds ready to invest. It’s perhaps the most powerful and transformational opportunity Vermont has ever been offered.

05/03/2021

Among individual Vermont towns in the Upper Valley, the surge to out-of-state buyers is even greater: up 97% in Woodstock (36 sales to 71 sales), 29% in Hartford (106 sales to 137 sales) and 113% in Norwich (8 sales to 17 sales).

WEST LEBANON — How crazy has the real estate market become in the Upper Valley? Ask Amanda Addington.Addington and her partner, both 32, share a one-bedroom apartment in Hartland with their cat, Gary, and since September have been actively looking to...

04/20/2021

Woodstock is #6 on the of arras where out-of-staters purchased home in 2020.

“Ski areas dominated out-of-state sales in previous years, as well. The 10 communities accounting for the most in sales were virtually identical from 2019 to 2020. The biggest change came in Killington, which fell from third-highest in 2019 to tenth place in 2020.”

The Vermont Department of Taxes logged 3,795 sales to out-of-staters in 2020, up from 2,750 the year before. The value of out-of-state sales nearly doubled: Buyers paid $1.43 billion for homes in 2020, up from $799 million the year before.

03/24/2021

WCT works to make home ownership affordable in Woodstock.

A typical household spends 7.6% more of its income to rent a median-priced housing unit in 2020 versus 2021.

03/18/2021

"Lower income households typically have the highest utility bills....it is because typically lower income families are living in less efficient housing."

This one reason WCT works to increase energy efficiency in our homes.

The Hogansville City Council heard from Groundswell CEO Michelle Moore Monday on how the city could benefit from the Save On Utilities Long term (SOUL) program. Consequently, after hearing from Moore, the city approved a partnership with the organization. The SOUL program focuses on energy efficienc...

02/21/2021

Woodstock Community Trust is proud to be the local fiscal sponsor of Naked Table!

Watch it now! On this episode of “Weekends with Yankee,” we sit down to a modern take on a traditional bean-hole supper in Cape Neddick with Justin and Danielle Walker, dig for tourmaline in Maine, and build a table by hand in Vermont with master craftsman Charles Shackleton.

02/17/2021

What does Woodstock have in common with Long Beach, California? We both want more moderately priced homes for our neighbors! High-rise condos may not be the answer for us but have a lot of options! How would you add moderate-income homes to Woodstock?

A unique program to offer affordable housing to people with moderate incomes is set to make its debut in Long Beach.