BRATTLEBORO-Saturday afternoon, December 7th brought a production of nearly 40 new homes to Windham County - in Gingerbread form - as Windham & Windsor Housing Trust hosted our first-ever Home Sweet Home event. Despite December being an incredibly busy month chock-full of wonderful activities to participate in, we had a good crowd helping us build homes. Our workshop was set up with free home-building kits and candy to decorate, and finished homes and structures were sited on our "designated village center" table, demonstrating compact growth options. Participants left with their creations and two lucky people walked away with tickets to the Nutcracker. The event was a fun and light way to build awareness of our mission to create and support permanently affordable homes in Southeast Vermont. We extend our thanks to community members who came by to take part in this sweet event, and we are so grateful to our sponsors who enable events like this to be entirely free of charge and open to anyone, including Neagley & Chase, Stevens & Associates, Vermont Country Store, Servpro, Mascoma Bank, Brattleboro Savings & Loan, Vermont Integrated Architecture, Stewart Property Management, DEW Construction, Savings Bank of Walpole, Gossens Bachman Associates, and C & S Wholesale Grocers.
Now all that's left to do is build homes for our community rather than gingerbread people. This should be just as easy, right?
Windham-Windsor Housing Trust
Brattleboro
Marion Major, outreach coordinator
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