Carly Berlin
Housing/Infrastructure ReporterCarly covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public 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’s an avid bird watcher and ultimate frisbee player.
Have a story idea or a tip? Get in touch at cberlin@vermontpublic.org
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The organizations that administer Section 8 housing vouchers are running out of federal money, and they want the state to intervene to stop a downward spiral of the system. -
The new COTS downtown shelter will serve up to 56 people, a major boost to the building’s capacity earlier this year. But it’s still not enough. -
State officials want to clone Jonah Richard, an Orange County native who’s building housing at a clip in the town where his family has lived for generations. -
The organizations are asking leaders in Scott’s administration to halt the changes if they cannot prove they have the authority to implement them. -
From Montpelier to Rutland to Waterbury, additional spaces are in the works for unhoused people, totaling about 100 seasonal and year-round shelter beds coming online during the next few months. They can’t come quickly enough. -
The project, which cost about $55 million, is one of the largest affordable housing developments built in Vermont in recent memory. -
No one had published a full accounting of the extraordinary amounts of public money spent on housing since 2020. We pieced it together. -
In Chittenden County, the median sale price of a primary home reached $500,000 last year. -
The number of people sleeping in a car or on the street in Vermont rose 63% from last year — and it’s likely an undercount. -
State officials plan to direct more than 60% of the federal disaster aid — over $41 million — toward housing development.
