PLAINFIELD – Plainfield appears poised to receive $5.2 million in state flood grant funding.
The $5.2 million will build infrastructure and a portion of the costs to construct 20 new housing units, 14 of which are for low- and moderate- income households, on a 24-acre parcel in Plainfield. Four duplexes will be built by Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity, and two buildings of six condominium units each will be built by HONE Homes, LLC, of Montpelier.
The 20-unit project is a scaled-back version of a 40-unit plan that had been proposed by the town of Plainfield for the same parcel; Plainfield voters killed the project by defeating a proposed bond. The private, nonprofit Plainfield Community Development Corporation will now be purchasing that parcel, but with plans to build half the number of units, according to Corporation Treasurer Arion Thiboumery.
This story is excerpted from one first published in The Montpelier Bridge, April 3, 2026.
