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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In addition to standing up a congregate shelter in Waterbury, the Department for Children and Families is moving forward with plans for a family shelter at the former Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro and three “emergency shelter apartments” in central Vermont.
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As Vermonters get turned away from shelter, more are likely living outside — making them harder to count and harder to help.
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According to data scraped by PriceLabs from Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, there’s a big spike in people booking short-term rentals for the dates around April 8.
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The Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition and the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness are now one entity: the Housing & Homelessness Alliance of Vermont (HHAV).
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As Vermont faces an acute housing shortage, lawmakers and members of Gov. Phil Scott’s administration are eyeing a host of measures to clear the path for more residential development. Among the tools they’re considering: reforming how neighbors can challenge a project.
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Attorney General Charity Clark announced the settlement Wednesday, which requires motel owner Anil Sachdev to pay $310,000 to motel residents whose security deposits he improperly withheld.
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The committee’s vote could lead to another standoff between lawmakers and the Phil Scott administration, which wants the program to end.
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The parent-led group Riverflow Community was awarded a state grant that will help with the design and planning of the first house.
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A spokesperson for Mayor Miro Weinberger said the city decided to clear the encampment when seasonal shelter options became available, but earlier this week, city officials said they must routinely turn people seeking shelter away due to a lack of capacity.
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Facing room shortage, Vermont is turning away people seeking shelter in motels during winter weatherCurrently, the state is informing about 60 households a day that there is no room for them, according to Miranda Gray, deputy commissioner of the Department for Children and Families’ economic services division.