BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Michael Monte knows a lot about affordable housing.
Monte is the executive director of Champlain Housing Trust, which owns or manages more than 2,500 affordable apartments and more than 100 shelter beds or hotel rooms in Chittenden, Franklin, and Grand Isle Counties. The nonprofit relies on federal, state, and private funding to make the numbers work in a market where home prices and rents have skyrocketed.