Chittenden County’s housing stock is dominated by older owner occupied homes. Its largely white population is becoming older, its households are becoming smaller, and the small number of non-white residents is growing. These demographic shifts, coupled with a rising demand for rental housing, new options for improving home energy efficiency and a growing urgency to address housing and transportation cost burdens among residents create a unique opportunity for the region. Planning today can help this become a region in which housing is fair, and residential buildings and neighborhoods are located and designed with the health of occupants and the sustainability of the greater community in mind.