Maura Collins

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  www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080528/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/28/2008    Last Visited: 5/29/2008  

  "In other states we are looking at, it has basically been a wash or there have been some savings," said Maura Collins, the policy and planning manager for the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, who also worked on its new report, "The Costs and Benefits of Assisting Vermont's Chronically Homeless."

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  www.vhfa.org/about/news/blog/?p=47 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/8/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  Posted Apr 8, 2008 at 10:18 am by Maura Collins
  
  Vermont Center for Independent Living is organizing a Universal Design Conference April 24 at the Doubletree Hotel in South Burlington.
  
  VHFA, along with several statewide housing partners, are sponsoring the day-long event.
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  Maura is VHFA's Policy and Planning Manager.Contact her.

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  Annual Conference & Tradeshow, October 16-19 (Chicago,... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/27/2004    Last Visited: 10/12/2004  

  Maura Collins, Research/Policy Analyst, Vermont HousingFinance Agency

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  Brattleboro Reformer - Housing market shows signs of... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/30/2006    Last Visited: 5/30/2006  

  "The 10, 11 and 12 percent annual increases in the price of housing wasn't stable," said Maura Collins, policy and planning coordinator for Vermont Housing Finance Agency."We've been expecting a change for some time."
  
  The changes are caused by the construction of more housing rather than inflated pricing, she said.
  
  "So many people have reported that it's a bubble, but it's not a bubble," Collins said.

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  Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/28/2006    Last Visited: 5/28/2006  

  "The 10, 11 and 12 percent annual increases in the price of housing wasn't stable," said Maura Collins, policy and planning coordinator for Vermont Housing Finance Agency."We've been expecting a change for some time."
  
  She said some economic analysts have been predicting for the last two years that the floor would eventually drop out from under the market, which they speculated was overpriced.
  
  But Collins said those predictions have not proved out so far.The changes in the market now are due more to the construction of additional housing stock than to inflated pricing, she said.
  
  "So many people have reported that it's a bubble, but it's not a bubble," Collins said."What we've seen is that even with an increase in housing stock, demand has stayed high."
  
  Collins and other industry insiders said Vermont's housing market is staying hot because of a shortage in moderate-to-affordable housing.

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  Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/21/2005    Last Visited: 7/21/2005  

  Maura Collins of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency discusses the county's affordable housing situation at a Southern Windsor County Planning Commission meeting Tuesday in Ascutney.
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  The trend is "unprecedented" according to Maura Collins, a housing needs analyst for VHFA, who presented a collage of disturbing excerpts from recent studies to the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission on Tuesday.
  
  Her research repeatedly showed an undersupplied housing market rife with cost-burdened residents.
  
  Close to 55 percent of homeowners in the county are now paying more than half of what they make on housing.
  
  "The last two years have just been mind-blowing," Collins said, predicting increases in income will not keep pace with the escalating price of housing.
  
  VHFA data showed average incomes this year are $15,000 short of what is needed to buy an "affordable" home (priced around $130,000), she said.
  
  By 2010, Collins said, that shortfall will double to almost $38,000.
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  "Vermont ranks seventh in the nation for the highest loss of young professionals," Collins said.
  
  "We are hemorrhaging youth."

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  The Housing Bubble » 2006 » May - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2006    Last Visited: 7/31/2008  

  What we've seen is that even with an increase in housing stock, demand has stayed high," says Maura Collins, policy and planning coordinator for Vermont Housing Finance Agency.

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  Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness: Continuum... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/2/2007    Last Visited: 5/1/2008  

  Maura CollinsVermont Housing Finance Agency

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  Vermont Housing Awareness Campaign: Press: Clips:... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/30/2006    Last Visited: 7/28/2008  

  "The 10, 11 and 12 percent annual increases in the price of housing wasn't stable," said Maura Collins, policy and planning coordinator for Vermont Housing Finance Agency."We've been expecting a change for some time."
  
  The changes are caused by the construction of more housing rather than inflated pricing, she said.
  
  "So many people have reported that it's a bubble, but it's not a bubble," Collins said.

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  Vermont Housing Awareness Campaign: Press: Clips: New... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/2/2006    Last Visited: 7/28/2008  

  So far this year, the median price for new construction in Chittenden County — including both condominiums and single-family homes — is $371,160, according to Maura Collins, policy and planning coordinator of the VHFA.The median price for just condos sold in the county this year is $239,900, she said.
  
  Not including subsidized condo units, the statewide median price of a new home or condo was $299,900 last year, she said.

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