Bill > H0829

This bill proposes to restore, enhance, and supplement Vermont's pandemic-era housing policy by implementing permanent upstream eviction protections, creating a rental registry, allocating resources for eviction diversion, modernizing policies on just cause evictions, rent increases, and security deposits, and creating programs for property owners to access funding to remediate damages from recent tenancies. The bill also appropriates significant funding to support various housing programs, including the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board's efforts to produce and preserve affordable housing, the Vermont Rental Housing Improvement Program, the Land Access and Opportunity Board, and eviction prevention initiatives. Additionally, the bill makes changes to the property transfer tax and personal income tax to support housing affordability.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services, Housing and Urban Affairs

https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/H.829