Stowe Area Realty's Graham Mink is part of a team working to reform — and improve — affordable housing in Lamoille County.

Read some of the ideas and outcomes from the panel discussion in this week's edition of the Stowe Reporter/News and Citizen:

What to do?

Nine Lamoille County leaders were on a panel that batted around ideas for affordable housing reform, reflecting on Doug Kennedy’s findings.

“It’s not a secret the permitting process is a challenge” for housing development, said Graham Mink of Stowe, who owns Green Mountain Management.

But he says that, since rent has gone up in many parts of the county, it “makes it worth it as a developer” to construct long-term rental buildings.

Read more in "Housing trouble: Rents on the rise."

Lamoille Housing Partnership has appointed two people to its board of trustees: Brian Story of Johnson and Graham Mink of Stowe.

“Brian and Graham bring a wealth of municipal and private development expertise and experience to our board, along with their interest and energy,” said Jim Lovinsky, executive director of the Lamoille Housing Partnership.

Read more from the Stowe Reporter. Congrats Graham!