Nothing illustrates the importance — and impact — of affordable housing and community development better than stories about the community itself. Learn about the people who develop and build the housing and the people who are built up because of it.
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May 21, 2025
[Rutland, VT] Today, the Rutland community celebrated the groundbreaking of Maplewood Commons Apartments. Co-owners and co-developers Cornerstone Housing Partners and Evernorth have partnered to develop Maplewood Commons Apartments, the new construction of 30 permanently affordable homes in Rutland, Vermont.
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May 5, 2025
[Putney, VT] Today, the Putney community celebrated the groundbreaking of Alice Holway Drive Apartments. Co-owners and co-developers, Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Evernorth partnered to develop these 25 newly constructed, highly energy-efficient, and permanently affordable apartments in Putney, Vermont.
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April 28, 2025
Colchester, Vermont – Champlain Housing Trust and Evernorth celebrated with community members, state officials, and public funders at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester Monday, marking the completion of 65 new permanently affordable apartments. The apartments, across three buildings, were completed in phases over the past five months.
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March 25, 2025
Evernorth closed Housing New England, Fund VI on March 19, 2025. This fund will provide equity to finance affordable housing in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
16 investors committed a total of $64,250,000 in equity making Housing New England, Fund VI (HNE Fund VI) a significant financial resource for the region’s critical affordable housing needs. HNE Fund VI’s investors include community, regional and national banks as well as one of the nation’s largest mortgage banking organizations.
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March 17, 2025
[Barre, VT] Today a gathering of community members, funders, residents, state legislators, and others celebrated the official grand opening for the historic Ward 5 School Apartments. Co-owners and co-developers, Evernorth and Downstreet Housing and Community Development partnered to redevelop the historic Ward 5 School into 9 new permanently affordable homes that are part of the larger Granite City Apartments project, which also includes 18 newly renovated apartments in two buildings on Bromur Street.
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February 10, 2025
[Waterbury, VT] Today, the Waterbury community celebrated the groundbreaking of Marsh House Apartments. Co-owners and co-developers, Evernorth and Downstreet Housing and Community Development partnered on Marsh House Apartments which will provide essential housing for 26 low- and moderate-income households in Waterbury, Vermont.
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January 8, 2025
[St. Johnsbury, VT]—Evernorth Rural Ventures (ERV) is pleased to announce the closing of $15 million in its New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation for the substantial expansion and improvement of the Weidmann Electrical Technology, Inc. (“Weidmann”) manufacturing and technology plant in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
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December 3, 2024
West Rutland, VT] – Today, the West Rutland community celebrated the groundbreaking of Marble Village Apartments. Co-owners and co-developers, The Housing Trust of Rutland County and Evernorth partnered on Marble Village Apartments which will provide essential housing for 24 low- and moderate-income households.
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November 15, 2024
[Putney, VT] – The proposed housing community on Alice Holway Drive in Putney is cleared to move forward. That was the ruling from the Vermont Supreme Court on November 15, 2024, siding with Windham & Windsor Housing Trust, owner of the property.
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October 28, 2024
Colchester, Vermont – At the site of a former dormitory converted into affordable apartments, housing leaders and local officials released the annual Building Homes Together campaign scorecard documenting the number of homes and apartments created throughout Chittenden County in 2023.
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September 17, 2024
[Springfield, MA] – Evernorth Rural Ventures, a subsidiary of Evernorth, is pleased to announce the closing of $14.3 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation to create a larger, new state-of-the-art facility for Square One, a nonprofit early childhood education and care provider. The NMTC supports the construction of a new building dedicated to early learning classrooms and workforce development programming for families.
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September 6, 2024
[Burlington, VT] – Evernorth Loan Fund, a community development organization of Evernorth, is thrilled to announce a generous $10 million donation to support its efforts in financing affordable housing projects in Vermont. The donation comes from an anonymous Vermont philanthropic donor who shares Evernorth’s commitment to creating vibrant, healthy communities through the development of affordable housing.
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