Addison Housing Works
35 Years of Growing Community
Addison Housing Works is celebrating its 35th Anniversary in 2024, and in honor of this milestone, we are looking back at all the ways our work has grown community in Addison County, from our first Manufactured Housing Community to our most recent development of 20 new homes at Firehouse Apartments. Over the course of the year, we will be highlighting some of our proudest achievements as well as the people who bring our communities to life. Homes are so much more than bricks and mortar, and we hope these stories will illuminate various aspects of what it means to have a home through the eyes of our friends and neighbors. You can browse the stories below as we release them. Then, on Friday, September 13, 2024, we invite you to join us on the Bristol Town Green for our 35th Anniversary Bash featuring live performances, tours, food, and other ways to celebrate growing community together.
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35 Years: A Retrospective
Our first vignette of our 35th anniversary series is a short video timeline of our journey from 1989 through 2024, from our roots as a Community Land Trust conserving land for housing and community purposes, to Addison County's primary nonprofit owner, developer, and manager of permanently affordable housing.
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35 Years of: Making Homes Affordable
We're proud to share the next installment in our 35th Anniversary series, a feature of our newest property Firehouse Apartments in Bristol. Making homes like Firehouse affordable is a critical part of our mission and also an increasingly difficult challenge as we confront skyrocketing construction costs and unprecedented numbers of people who are houseless. To make affordable housing possible, AHW has to bring together multiple funding sources (nine in the case of Firehouse Apartments) for which we face stiff competition. The results are worth it though--Firehouse enabled families with kids to move out of motels and into permanent homes, seniors and people with mobility issues to move into one-level homes more suited to their needs, and employees of local businesses to find housing near their work, keeping Addison County's economy vibrant.
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