Housing Justice

These facts and more can be found on the National Low Income Housing Coalition website.

Upcoming Events

Everyone deserves safe, secure housing. We’re forming a construction cooperative to match experienced builders with enthusiastic learners and skill-up in trades skills, repair homes, and build new homes for low-income neighbors.

Passionate about fair housing and popular education? We are in the process of creating one-page fact sheets for tenants. Over 25 percent of NEK residents are renters and deserve safe, stable housing. At our next meeting, we will talk about hosting Know Your Rights trainings and storytelling workshops for tenants.

Each month we’ll go door-to-door in towns and villages throughout the Kingdom to find out: What is actually affordable for renters in town? What types of housing do we, the people impacted by housing insecurity, want to live in? Does the town’s housing plan meet the needs of housing insecure residents?

Eat lunch and speak with fellow Vermonters about housing issues that affect us all.

We are interested in knowing what affordability means to us and our neighbors and are encouraging everyone to go to their town’s next selectboard meeting to ask about what their town’s housing plan is. Does it align with what residents think? Will it work to give more Vermonters the housing they want and need? Follow this link to join the meeting!

If you’d like to join one of the committees, come to the next meeting, or have any questions about the housing campaign, please email [email protected].

The Construction Justice Cooperative

We’re seeking contractors to be part of a construction crew that works with flood survivors to rebuild their homes and the homes of neighbors. We want to prioritize hiring folks who were impacted by the floods this summer.

Contact [email protected] if you’re an interested builder or funder.

This work is inspired by Just Construction and their work in Southern Vermont.

Tenant’s Rights Working Group

Understanding your rights as a tenant can be challenging. We are currently working on a series of one-page flyers that will provide helpful information to renters that they may use when navigating the complexities of renting. Here are the sources we are using:

We are interested in finding ways to hold landlords accountable to their responisibilties to keep housing in the Northeast Kingdom safe, secure, and functional. Are you interested in exploring this conversation and brainstorming ways to make housing more equitable where we live?

Email [email protected] to join the Tenant’s Rights Working Group.