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.
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The Vermont Senate passed its version of the state budget on Thursday, which would place a cap on the number of motel and hotel rooms the state would pay for moving forward. The move is lawmakers’ latest attempt to scale back the expanded, pandemic-era version of the motel program. -
Multiple bills aimed at modernizing Vermont’s signature land-use law have circulated around the Statehouse this year, drawing intense debate. Now, those bills have become one. -
The Vermont House wants to set up another decade of major spending on the housing crisis — and tax increases to go with it. Meanwhile, the Senate and Gov. Phil Scott would rather focus on regulatory changes making housing easier to build. -
The House wants to set up another decade of major spending on the housing crisis — and taxes to go with it. The Senate and the governor would rather focus on regulatory changes. -
Annette Berry, who has been staying at the Colchester Days Inn, was among those preparing to leave. The task, she said, has become all too familiar. -
Some 360 households — nearly a quarter of households sheltered through the program — were expected to depart the program on Monday. -
The bill would remove state-level development review in some qualifying municipalities while adding environmental protections in other parts of the state. -
In her decision, Judge Helen Toor called out the lack of a comprehensive approach to addressing homelessness in Vermont, calling it an “overly complicated bureaucratic and financial maze.” -
Use of the four shelters had ticked up over the week, most notably in Burlington, where nearly 40 people slept in the building on its final night of operation. -
The four shelters have seen little use since they were set up last Friday.
