Henry Epp
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222 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Eventually there will be thirty-two homes nestled into the new Dogwood Circle development in Milton, Vermont.
But right now it's a work in progress.
Seven homes are finished, the owners are already living in them, three more are under construction.
Workers are screwing in drywall, the rest of the lots are still patches of dirt.
But that'll change soon, says developer Colin Frisbee of Stirling Homes, standing in the basement of one of the under construction units.
The new neighborhood is a short walk to the town's rec field and library, and by New England standards, it's a fairly dense development, 32 units on six acres.
Lowering prices for buyers.
Still, the cheapest home here, half a duplex, will set you back four hundred eighty thousand dollars.
That's actually a good bit below the median sale price in Vermont.
And units are selling, Frisbee says, but despite a persistent housing shortage in the state, his business is kind of just chugging along.
But it's staying afloat thanks in part to the region's demographics, says Robert Dietz, chief economist with the National Association of Home Builders.
Which is pushing up demand for new homes, and that's helping the Northeast look a bit better than the rest of the country, says Paul Willen, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Coming out of the pandemic, home building boomed across the south and west, but as borrowing rates for builders and buyers rose, that boom came to a halt.
Meanwhile, says Willin.
That catch up is slow going for a few reasons, borrowing rates for one, and particularly high construction costs in the Northeast, Willens says.
Plus compared to other regions, there's just not as much space up here.
And even smaller developments like Dogwood Circle face another headwind that developers say make building in the Northeast especially hard, state and local permitting processes.
Developer Colin Frisbee says it took two and a half years to get permits for his new neighborhood, and that was a lightning speed compared to some other projects he has in the works.
Frisbee cites, for example, local rules around setbacks that make it harder to build at the density required to keep prices in check.
For Julie Maslak, the increased density at Dogwood Circle came with trade-offs.
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