Shires Housing, a nonprofit housing developer in Southwestern Vermont, is renovating the Squire House, a historic downtown building in Bennington, Vermont, for use as recovery housing.  The recovery program at Squire House will be operated in partnership with the Vermont Foundation of Recovery and will serve women in recovery and their children.

The Squire Recovery House is expected to open in the summer of 2024, and will be an important community resource for those working to end the cycle of addiction in the greater Bennington area. Currently, the closest recovery homes to Bennington are located in Rutland, Brattleboro and Springfield, each at least an hour away.  Residents of the Squire Recovery House will live in a safe, newly renovated and historically significant building where they will receive recovery support to help them start a new chapter in their lives.

The renovation of the historic building was financed through a combination of federal historic tax credits, downtown tax credits, and grant and loan funds from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, the Vermont Community Loan Fund, the Vermont Community Development Program, the Hoehl Family Foundation, the Preservation Trust of Vermont and community support.

If you are interested in learning more about our affordable housing practice, tax credit financing, or state and federal development incentives, please contact Drew Kervick, Megan Noonan or Mark Saunders.