Voices of Home

"Home has been a very peculiar notion for me all my life.
It’s sort of like something I’ve always sought after but never quite gotten to,
like an ever receding will of the wisp, if you will.
Or maybe a kind of perfection that one doesn’t ever achieve."

-French Brandon, Decker Towers

Voices of Home Website

Voices of Home lives at Vtaffordablehousing.org/voices.

The following information was last updated in 2018 and remains on this website as a preview to the project. Voices of Home was founded in 2016 and has traveled to Affordable Housing Communities across Vermont and Chittenden County. The Vermont Folklife Center featured these portraits, art works, and audio portraits in the show Somewhere Between Place and Home from September 2019 to March of 2020.Visit the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalitions website above to view the communities served trough Voices of Home.

a story sharing project which aims to:

Break down stigmas that may be held by general public regarding those receiving or in need of housing assistance through community engagement and conversation;

Build community by engaging residents in a project outside their immediate living situation and supporting each other through the story-telling process;

Bridge conversations between residents, policy makers, and community members by changing the power dynamic so residents’ voices are heard and used for the creation of more affordable housing.

Empower those living in affordable housing to be leaders,
through listening to and sharing resident's stories;