The Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) promoted Deborah Flannery to Deputy Executive Director and Sara Everest to IT Director.
Flannery joined VHFA in January 2025 as Managing Director of Community Development, where she has overseen development finance and asset management. In her expanded role, she will also oversee homebuyer mortgage programs in a unified program operations structure designed to help VHFA finance more homes for low‑ and middle‑income Vermonters while maintaining strong stewardship of public and private capital. This structure is a core component of VHFA’s broader effort to increase housing production, preservation, and long‑term affordability in Vermont.
Sara started at VHFA in 2013 as a web developer. Her role steadily expanded as she assumed broader technology leadership responsibilities—guiding complex initiatives, modernizing systems, and building solutions that support internal operations and public facing services. Sara was instrumental in the early development of the Agency’s website, modernization of Vermont’s affordable housing datahub—housingdata.org, and numerous technology upgrades that support the work and mission of VHFA.
