Press Release
Rutland, VT · February 22, 2024
“BHM is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to building affordable housing profitably. It is offering a new private-public-non-partisan housing partnership and subsidy solution that buyers and renters alike can access. The program delivers a promise they will not have to pay more than 25% of their income for a mortgage or rent,” said Peter de Krassel, founder of the movement.
BHM will host a media opportunity on February 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Depot Square, downtown Rutland. Members of the press and the general public are welcome. If a Vermont company that builds outhouses can build tiny homes, surely we can replace shithouses full of crappy housing policies and practices this leap year and leap into a new housing policy that builds affordable housing profitably.
Rutland City Mayor Mike Doenges recently unveiled a city initiative aimed at increasing housing units in Rutland City by 2029. His initiatives to find creative ways for achieving these goals makes Rutland City an opportune place at an opportune time to show the capabilities of compassionate capitalism.
“I welcome the introduction of ambitious initiatives like this one, which align with our overarching goal of adding 1,000 new housing units over the next 5 years here in Rutland City. It’s encouraging to witness the attention this announcement has garnered from Breaking Housing Matters. Their commitment to developing innovative funding approaches and fostering collaborations in the housing sector is the type of creative approach that communities everywhere could benefit from.”
“The time is long overdue to look at new innovative out-of-the-box ideas that actually can get affordable housing built profitably instead of continuing to pursue policies that have repeatedly proven, decade after decade, that they are unworkable,” said Ed Bove, AICP, Executive Director of the Rutland Redevelopment Authority.
It is the small cities and towns where great innovations have been born and nurtured. Vermont gave us the land grant university, John Deere, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Ann Clark Cookie Cutters, and the iconic State of Vermont brand. Now the State will lead the nation in providing affordable housing profitably.
“We are asking all elected officials and candidates running for office, as well as housing officials, business leaders, and interested thought leaders, from Vermont and around our great country, to look closely at this new revolutionary housing solution,” added de Krassel. “By creating local non-partisan Housing Patriots Chapters that urge and support elected officials considering and adopting BHM’s housing proposal, our deeply divided nation can rally around something everyone can agree on: we have a housing crisis, and a real paradigm shift, a sea change, is desperately needed. But also within our reach.”
Join us and be part of the solution.
Building affordable housing profitably.
www.BreakingHousingMatters.org
