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By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — The city has finalized plans to sell a vacant downtown lot, which was once home to the city’s public works department, to private developers who intend to redevelop the property at 20 Spencer St., into affordable rental housing.The City...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — On Monday, the nonprofit Twin Pines Housing Trust began accepting applications for two multi-family housing projects that are expected to open in about six months.Combined they will provide 82 apartment units for people making...

LEBANON — Affordable housing nonprofit Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity is seeking a new executive director to replace Eva Loomis, who recently announced plans to leave the organization at the end of June. Loomis, who served six years as director,...

By JIM KENYON

Lee Cutting and John Walsh were the best of friends. Whether they were good influences on each other is arguable.But they had a bond. His name was Jim Beam. “We put away a lot of bourbon,” Walsh told me.For 10 years, Cutting, 64, and Walsh, 72, lived...

By JIM KENYON

A 196-unit apartment complex in downtown Lebanon, a “farm outlet store” near Interstate 91 in Hartland and a cluster of “tiny homes” for tourists in Brownsville.The three proposed development projects in the news last week offer a window into how the...

By JOHN H. VOGEL JR.

For affordable housing advocates, this is a time of great opportunities and difficult challenges. Thanks to the CARES and American Rescue Plan acts, financial resources available for affordable housing in Vermont and across the country have...

By JIM KENYON

On Wednesday, Debbie Farnsworth carried a cardboard box filled with house plants to her Honda subcompact parked outside the downtown White River Junction apartment where she lived for 14 years.With help from family, the 60-year-old Farnsworth, who...

By JOHN H. VOGEL JR.

In 1957, an Asian Flu pandemic spread from Hong Kong to Europe and then the United States, killing more than a million people. Like the new coronavirus, this pandemic triggered a global recession. In order to end that recession in the United States,...

By ANDREW WINTER, ELIZABETH BRIDGEWATER, NANCY OWENS, EILEEN PELTIER and BRENDA TORPY

Vermont has received $1.25 billion through the federal coronavirus relief act. This money has time constraints and restrictions. One of the allowable uses is providing for the needs of those without housing because of the COVID-19 public health...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

There are three things you can count on in the Upper Valley: rutted roads during mud season, the sublime alchemy of sugar and deep-fried batter at Muriel’s Donuts in Lebanon, and the knowledge that somebody somewhere has scheduled yet another public...

By JARED PENDAK

NORWICH — A former real estate developer who created a nonprofit group to push for a small-scale affordable housing project in Norwich has dropped his efforts to purchase a parcel near downtown.Stuart Richards, a 35-year Norwich resident, last month...

If the Upper Valley is to continue to prosper, boosting the supply of affordable housing is imperative. Doing so will require initiatives both large and small.We noted with approval recently a proposal by Dartmouth College to develop hundreds of units...

News that Dartmouth College is considering developing housing for graduate students on 53 acres in Lebanon is welcome indeed, not only because of the scale — potentially hundreds of units — but also because it represents an acknowledgment that the...

By Jared Pendak

Hartford — Twin Pines Housing Trust is applying to expand its rental complex off of Sykes Mountain Avenue while eyeing the construction of new units on Hartford Avenue in Wilder.Citing an increasing need for affordable and mixed-income housing in the...

Fairlee is the latest Upper Valley community to recognize the critical need for more workforce and affordable housing in the region and to realize that providing some of it might be key to the town’s future vitality.Town officials met with planners...

By EmmaJean Holley

Hanover — Though far from the world of Charles Dickens, the Upper Valley tells its own Tale of Two Cities — at least, that’s what Andrew Winter, executive director of Twin Pines Housing, argued while leading a discussion on low-income housing on...

It’s been 25 years since the last — and by the way, only — affordable housing development for working-class families was built in Norwich. It’s been 40 years since the town constructed its only affordable housing complex for seniors.One thing Norwich...

By Rob Wolfe

Norwich — In response to residents’ concerns about overdevelopment, the town Planning Commission is scaling back proposed revisions to the Town Plan that envisioned future growth along the Route 5 South and River Road corridor.Norwich’s Town Plan, a...

It’s hardly surprising that the Norwich Planning Commission has, in the face of stiff opposition, shelved a proposal to promote affordable housing by creating a high-density zoning district along Route 5 South and River Road. Even in — perhaps...

By Rob Wolfe

Norwich — The Planning Commission is putting the brakes on a potential zoning change that drew opposition at a public forum this winter, opting instead to hold more discussions about the possible high-density district rather than make a formal...