Gus Seelig
Executive Director of the Vermont Housing & Conservation BoardBiography
Gus Seelig has served as the Executive Director of the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board since its inception in 1987. Under his leadership, VHCB has invested $370 million in state funding to develop or rehabilitate 13,000 affordable homes, to conserve 740 farms comprising 167,000 acres of farmland, to protect 267,600 acres of natural areas, recreational and forest lands, and to restore 71 historic community buildings.
Prior to his work for the Board, Mr. Seelig served as the Executive Director of the Central Vermont Community Action Council, a low-income advocacy and community development organization. Gus has also served on the Affordable Housing Program Advisory Board for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. He is a past chair and current board member of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, and Vice-Chair of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. He is Town Moderator in Calais, Vermont. In 2010 Mr. Seelig was presented with the Art Gibb Award by Smart Growth Vermont for safeguarding Vermont values and our unique landscape. In 2019 the Vermont Council on Rural Development presented Gus with the Vermont Lifetime Leadership Award in recognition of his transformational leadership in service to community and to the people of Vermont.
Gus received a B.A. from Goddard College in 1976 and completed Harvard University’s Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government in 1995.