Feb. 2, 2011: Erhard Mahnke and Kenn Sassorossi guest hosted Channel 17′s Housing and Communities Show on Town Meeting Television. They talked about recent affordable housing issues currently on the radar in Vermont, including Wharf Lane & Bobbin Mill. They also discussed the Mickenberg Commission review of the statewide housing agencies that occurred this past year.
Airtimes
2 Monday February 7, 2011 at 3:00 PM
3 Sunday February 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM
4 Monday February 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Click here to watch the video: Housing and Communities Show: Affordable Housing in Vermont
Feb. 3, 2011: Jane Lindholm hosted VPR’s Vermont Edition which focused on at risk subsidized housing. Joining her was Seven Days columnist Shay Totten, Vermont Housing Authority Executive Director Richard Williams, Vermont Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Sarah Carpenter, and Vermont Housing Conservation Board Executive Director Gus Seeling.
Click here to listen to the segment: Some Subsidized Housing At Risk As Program Expires
Advocacy and Policy, Announcements, Housing Agency and Nonprofit News, Housing Creation and Preservation, Rental Housing
Tags: Bobbin Mill, Erhard Mahnke, Gus Seelig, Kenn Sassorossi, Mickenberg Commission, Richard Williams, Sarah Carpenter, Shay Totten, Wharf Lane
Source: 7days Blurt Staff Blog, Posted by Shay Totten on January 28, 2011
“On the day they were supposed to receive eviction notices, the 44 residents of Wharf Lane were handed much better news: A deal has been struck between two nonprofit housing groups and the building’s owner that will keep their apartments as subsidized, affordable housing.
“We announced to the residents that we had a deal, in principle, on both Wharf Lane and Bobbin Mill and expected to sign purchase and sale contracts early next week,” Paul Dettman, executive director of Burlington Housing Authority told Seven Days.
BHA is working with the Vermont Housing Finance Agency to purchase Wharf Lane and the nearby Bobbin Mill apartments, which is home to more than 100 people — many of them low-income families. [More ...]
Advocacy and Policy, Announcements, Housing Agency and Nonprofit News, Housing Creation and Preservation
Tags: Burlington Housing Authority, Pizzagalli Properties, Vermont Housing Finance Agency, Wharf Lane
Source: SevenDays Staff Blog, June 30
“A top Champlain College official said the school is officially taking its name out of the running as a potential purchaser of of an apartment building that houses 44 low-income residents. [More ...]
Tags: Shay Totten, Wharf Lane
Residents and representatives from local agencies met Wednesday evening at Wharf Lane to discuss the property's impending sale. Photo credit: Josh Stewart, NROC
Residents of Wharf Lane Apartments in Burlington are working together to save their homes from being sold to a commercial developer. The building, owned by Pizzagalli Properties, is home to 44 low-income renters, many of whom are elderly or have disabilities.
The apartments were built 30 years ago by a private developer using HUD funds. The contract, which expires in 9 months, specified that after 30 years as low-income housing, the property could be sold at market rate. [More ...]
Tags: Resident organizing, Wharf Lane
Source: Seven Days, June 10, 2010
By Shay Totten
“Residents at Wharf Lane apartments in Burlington could be kicked out of their homes by next year, and now their plight is getting some additional attention.
Those residents have now started an online petition to gain public support and sympathy for their situation. [More ...]
Tags: Wharf Lane
Source: Care2 petitionsite
“Dozens of Burlington Vermont’s poorest renters could get the boot from subsidized housing if their landlord (Pizzagalli Properties) sells a 37 unit apartment building to Champlain College to house students.
Wharf Lane Apartments, is home to 44 people with annual incomes in the $12,000 range. Many are elderly or people with disabilities and have lived in the building for over 15 years. [More ...]
Tags: petition, Wharf Lane
“Dozens of Burlington’s poorest renters could get the boot from subsidized housing if their landlord — Pizzagalli Properties [1] — sells a 37-unit apartment building to Champlain College [2] to house students.
Wharf Lane apartments [3], on lower Maple Street, is home to 44 people with annual incomes in the $12,000 range. Many are elderly or people with disabilities. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Wharf Lane
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