.

Housing Vermont
Wentworth Community Housing – Hartford, Vermont

Located in Hartford, Vermont, this beautiful new building provides 30 energy efficient, affordable family apartments in the designated growth center with easy access to services, public transit and job opportunities.

Housing Vermont’s energy services division helps us to optimize building systems, ensuring efficiency, while maintaining costs and increasing equipment longevity.

Intensive focus went into the design of Wentworth Community Housing and we made substantial investment in the thermal shell, solar PV on the roof and utilized an innovative approach to heating and cooling through an all-electric central ventilation system. The result is that during the month of August, when it was quite warm outside, the indoor temperature was a comfortable 72 degrees, and the electric bill for the entire building, after netting out the credits from the solar PV system, was a remarkable $289.69!

Housing credit equity provided $5.8 million of the $9.8 million total development costs. Other sources of funds included Vermont’s Housing for All Revenue Bond, the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Vermont Housing Finance Agency and Efficiency Vermont.

Housing Vermont and Twin Pines Housing have worked together to provide quality affordable homes to low and moderate income people in Hartford that strengthen the regional economy by helping workers afford housing in a high cost area.