The
State of Vermont’s Department of Housing and Community Development
will be holding a public hearing to get input from Vermont residents
before finalizing the state’s HUD Consolidated Plan Annual Action
Plan (AAP) for 2024.

The
hearing will be held on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, from 1:00 – 1:30
p.m. The in-person location will be in the Calvin Coolidge room at
DHCD, 1 National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th floor, Montpelier.

To
participate electronically, go to:
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Meeting
ID: 272 754 130 632

Passcode:
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The
draft Plan outlines priorities for the use of approximately $11
million in federal funds provided to the State for the Community
Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnership Program, and
Emergency Solutions Grant program, and $3 million awarded to the
State from the National Housing Trust Fund to develop housing that is
affordable to extremely low- and very low- income households. The
Plan also serves as Vermont’s application to HUD for these funds.

HUD’s
goals for the Plan are to provide decent affordable housing, assure a
suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunity for
Vermont’s citizens. The Department, along with the Consolidated Plan
Advisory Board, and the other State agencies and partners that
receive HUD funding under the Plan, developed the draft based on
input received about the state’s housing, homelessness, public
facility and service, and non-housing community development needs, as
well as ideas for grant activities the State should consider funding
for the next year.

Accommodations
for persons with disabilities and interpreters to meet the needs of
non-English speaking persons will be made available upon request.
Requests for accommodations should be directed to Arthur Hamlin at
(802) 828-3749 or emailed to arthur.hamlin@vermont.gov by March 28,
2024. For the hearing impaired please call (TTY#) 1-800-253-0191.

More
information on the plan and process is available on the Department’s
website at https://accd.vermont.gov/housing/plans-data-rules/hud/how