Voices of Home

 

Voices of Home is an audio-visual storytelling project launched in 2015 by Corrine Yonce when she served as an as an Americorps VISTA volunteer with the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (now the Housing & Homelessness Alliance of Vermont ). This exhibit brings together work from two of Yonce’s collaborative efforts, Voices of South Burlington Community Housing and Voices of Decker Towers.

Yonce envisioned Voices of Home as a way to “erase the stigma surrounding affordable housing communities and educate our friends and neighbors about the importance of a stable, reasonably priced home in helping people lead fulfilling lives.” Through the project she interviewed residents in a number of Vermont affordable housing communities, engaged with them through their stories, and learned how having affordable homes impacted their lives. She recorded those conversations and subsequently paired the recordings with painted portraits of each interviewee.