The home for 开云体育's coverage of housing issues affecting the state of Vermont.
Carly Berlin is a Housing/Infrastructure Reporter for 开云体育 and VTDigger and is a corps member with the national journalism nonprofit Report for America.
Lexi Krupp is 开云体育's Upper Valley/Northeast Kingdom reporter, focusing on housing and health care.
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City officials decided to open the shelter because they estimate over 250 people are currently sleeping outside in and around Burlington. -
The 344 households who have been unable to get a motel room this month include those deemed most vulnerable, such as unhoused families. -
The subject of landlord-tenant relations has arisen as a thorny 鈥� and politically divisive 鈥� issue amid the state鈥檚 housing crisis. -
The 2024 election results set the stage for a big shakeup in Vermont鈥檚 state government. -
Brattleboro representative town meeting members voted down a new ordinance that gave the police authority to issue civil fines to control anti-social behavior downtown. -
The U.S. is short approximately four million homes. Wharton economist Ben Keys traces the beginning of the housing crisis to the 2008 financial meltdown 鈥� and says climate change is making things worse. -
Lawmakers had hoped the temporary carve-outs would help ease Vermont鈥檚 acute housing shortage. Developers are using the new exemptions in at least a dozen locations across the state. -
The cause of death is unknown, but a local nonprofit said the person had been camping outside after being evicted from their apartment. The deaths of three unhoused people last week have been reported by law enforcement, in a season when Vermont鈥檚 shifting policies around homelessness have left some people without shelter. -
This winter鈥檚 motel program rules will be more restrictive than prior years鈥�. Seasonal shelter expansions are in the works, but may not meet the remaining need. -
Some people are doubling up with friends and family. Others have strained their budgets to stay longer in the motels. And many are sleeping outside.
