MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders Celebrates Breaking Ground on New Affordable Housing and Veterans Center with Burlington Mayor, Champlain Housing Trust, Local Leaders

MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders Celebrates Breaking Ground on New Affordable Housing and Veterans Center with Burlington Mayor, Champlain Housing Trust, Local Leaders

BURLINGTON, Aug. 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), and other local housing leaders will come together this Friday, August 16, to celebrate breaking ground on the construction of new affordable housing and a veterans center in Burlington.

Sanders secured $1 million for the project through the FY2022 Congressionally Directed Spending process.

This funding will allow the CHT and the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ (VFW) Howard Plant Post 782 to redevelop the old VFW building into a new space that provides veterans services and permanently affordable housing to Vermonters – including apartments reserved for homeless veterans. The veterans service center will also expand programs to assist combat veterans with post-deployment reintegration, camaraderie, and navigating VA health care and benefits.

Details
What: Breaking Ground on New Affordable Housing and Veterans Center
When: 11:00 a.m., Friday, August 16
Where: 176 South Winooski Avenue, Burlington, Vermont (site of the former Howard Plant VFW Post 782)
Who:

  • Senator Sanders
  • Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanek
  • Michael Monte, CEO of Champlain Housing Trust
  • Nancy Owens, President of Evernorth  
  • Michelle Caver, Post Commander and Service Officer, VFW Post 782
  • Local leaders