The home for Vermont Public's coverage of housing issues affecting the state of Vermont.
Lexi Krupp is Vermont Public's Upper Valley/Northeast Kingdom reporter, focusing on housing and health care. Learn more about Lexi's coverage and get in touch here.
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At one of the four shelters, set up in anticipation of people exiting the emergency housing motel program, not a single person showed up over the weekend.
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Vermont municipalities are allowed to auction off a person’s property if they fall behind on their taxes. It’s a process called a tax sale. Local officials say tax sales are an important tool to ensure towns get the revenue they’re owed, but critics say the process has few protections for residents.
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Advocates scrambled to help people hold onto their housing, but state officials said late Friday afternoon that 372 households were still scheduled to lose their rooms.
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Vermont Legal Aid wants the state to assess whether program participants may be eligible to remain in their rooms.
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The shelters would only be open for a matter of days to allow people staying in motels to apply for a new waiver to remain in the program.
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Residents and advocates had worried that a new $80 rate cap would cause motels to abruptly drop out of the state’s emergency housing program.
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The spending bill attempts to preserve housing for most of the Vermonters living in state-subsidized motel rooms, but advocates worry a new cap on rates could lead motel owners to withdraw from the program. The bill would also send millions in funding to municipalities recovering from the July 2023 floods.
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Vermont hospitals are seeing an increase in long-term patients due to a lack of placement options, like residential care facilities. In some instances, as hospitals fill up, it's delaying care for people with serious medical needs.
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For decades, the 11-story Decker Towers complex in Burlington has housed low-income seniors and people with disabilities. But for the last couple years, the building has been overwhelmed with people experiencing homelessness. Seven Days reporter Derek Brouwer has been covering the story, and he recently sat down with Vermont Public's Mary Williams Engisch.
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Some motel owners have signaled that they may no longer participate in the state shelter program if a $75 or $80 nightly reimbursement cap takes effect. That uncertainty has some unhoused Vermonters in the program panicking that their stays could soon be cut short.