Carly Berlin
Housing/Infrastructure ReporterCarly covers housing and infrastructure for 开云体育 and VTDigger and is a corps member with the national journalism nonprofit Report for America.
Previously, she was the metro reporter for New Orleans Public Radio, where she focused on housing, transportation and city government. Before working in radio, she was the Gulf Coast Correspondent for Southerly, where she reported on disaster recovery across south Louisiana during two record-breaking hurricane seasons.
Carly grew up in Atlanta and is a graduate of Bowdoin College. She鈥檚 an avid bird watcher and ultimate frisbee player.
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Administration officials have been pressuring lawmakers to speed up the transition away from the emergency motel housing program, and cut down on costs. Despite winning some concessions, the governor鈥檚 administration wouldn鈥檛 say whether it was satisfied. -
Housing advocates say a cap on the amount of state tax revenue set aside for the new CHIP program would severely limit the number of homes that could be built with its help, among concerns about other restrictions. -
Lawmakers in Montpelier scramble to finish a bill aimed at alleviating Vermont鈥檚 housing crisis. -
Here鈥檚 a look at the top changes this year鈥檚 eclectic housing package would make 鈥� including where lawmakers are still debating the details and where Gov. Phil Scott鈥檚 administration stands. -
While lawmakers previously lambasted the caps, both the House and Senate have now agreed to a budget bill that contains them, aligning with Gov. Phil Scott鈥檚 recommendation. -
In some instances, state employees told motel program participants that they were ineligible to remain sheltered the very same day that they needed to leave, according to an attorney at Vermont Legal Aid. -
The $2.4 million in terminated Vermont grants funded positions that focused on 鈥渆verything from housing placement services, food security, to job training, to after school programming鈥� and flood recovery, said Philip Kolling, who oversees AmeriCorps programs in the state. -
State housing leaders are celebrating the opening of 65 new units but worry that federal cuts may be coming to the systems that support affordable housing. -
Developers are cheering the so-called CHIP program, which would finance infrastructure to support development, including in towns that weren鈥檛 able to take advantage of similar options in the past. -
Several hundred young service members were dismissed in mid-April nationwide as a result of the Trump administration鈥檚 push to shrink the federal workforce.
