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Vermont Legal Aid on helping those in need as rental assistance program ends

By Connor Cyrus,

Published September 23, 2022 at 2:52 PM EDT

Eviction Notice — Housing advocates say more Vermonters will face evictions as the pandemic-era rental assistance program winds down.

The Vermont Emergency Rental Assistance Program, a pandemic-era program that thousands of Vermonters rely on, is winding down. The Scott administration said Wednesday it found $20 million to partially extend it. But for many, the benefit will end in December.

Host Connor Cyrus talks with an advocate working with people facing homelessness in Vermont.

Our guest is:

Rebecca T. Plummer, medical-legal partnership project director at Vermont Legal Aid

Broadcast live at noon on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022.

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Connor Cyrus

Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.

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Tedra Meyer

Tedra joined Vermont Public as a producer for Vermont Edition in January 2022. Before moving to Vermont, she was a journalist in New York City for 20 years. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

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