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By CARLY BERLIN

Over 300 highly vulnerable households will lose eligibility for Vermont’s motel voucher program by the end of June.

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a bill that would have regionalized and privatized Vermont’s homelessness response system.

By CARLY BERLIN

After an hours-long debate on Friday afternoon, the Vermont House advanced a major housing package that would set up a new financing tool for infrastructure that supports new residential development.

By CARLY BERLIN

Facing a reduction in federal funding, the Vermont State Housing Authority will stop issuing new rental assistance vouchers to low-income households on its lengthy waitlist, and has begun rescinding vouchers from about 50 Vermonters currently searching for an apartment to use them.

By CARLY BERLIN

Advocates for unhoused Vermonters are calling on lawmakers to remove restrictions on the state’s motel voucher program in the coming year’s budget, including an 80-night limit on voucher stays and an 1,100 cap on available rooms during the warmer months.

By CARLY BERLIN

A Vermont Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Agency of Human Services, requiring that the state give motel voucher program recipients adequate notice before ending their benefits — and give them enough time to appeal.

By CARLY BERLIN

Soon after floodwaters inundated Montpelier in July 2023, the city tasked its Parks and Trees Department with running a central hub for flood response. That meant MarekZajac, an AmeriCorps member serving with the department, spent long hours under a tent in the capitol’s downtown. The now 32-year-old kept track of which neighbors needed their homes mucked and gutted — and dispatched available volunteers.

By CARLY BERLIN

Jonah Richard wants to build a new neighborhood in Bradford, an Orange County town of about 2,800. Richard envisions 15 small “starter home” cottages tucked off the town’s main drag. His hope is to sell them at a price point that has become vanishingly rare in Vermont: under $300,000.

By CARLY BERLIN

The Legislature has once again sent a midyear spending bill to Gov. Phil Scott’s desk, but a partisan standoff over Vermont’s motel voucher program continues to unfold.

By CARLY BERLIN

The Legislature’s chief lawyer has deemed Gov. Phil Scott’s move to extend motel voucher eligibility for a narrow segment of unhoused Vermonters an “unconstitutional consolidation of power.” 

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott took executive action on Friday to extend motel voucher stays for unhoused families with children and certain people with acute medical needs through June 30. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Last summer’s flooding rendered Chris Duprey and his family homeless. When floodwaters ripped through the small town of Plainfield, Vt., they claimed the manufactured home Duprey rented with his wife and two young children. For the last five months, the Motel 6 in Colchester, Vt., has been home to the family of four, with the aid of a state voucher.

By CARLY BERLIN

Amid an increasingly heated debate over Vermont’s motel voucher program, Gov. Phil Scott’s administration has rejected a compromise proposal on a midyear spending bill presented by Democratic legislative leaders late Tuesday.

By CARLY BERLIN

Without the votes to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto on a midyear spending bill, Democratic leaders in the Legislature have narrowed their focus to asking the governor to extend motel shelter for some unhoused Vermonters.

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott delivered his first veto of the 2025 legislative session over a midyear spending package on Friday, setting up a showdown over Vermont’s motel shelter program.

By CARLY BERLIN

MONTGOMERY, Vt. — Standing near the main crossroads in this eastern Franklin County town of 1,200, Charlie Hancock made his pitch for the town center’s first-ever municipal sewer system. It’s one the longtime Selectboard chair has had plenty of time to refine — it’s been six-plus years since community wastewater emerged as a key objective for the town. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Inside a cavernous factory at the end of a road in East Montpelier, houses get built piece by piece on an assembly line. 

By CARLY BERLIN

After state leaders signed off on new restrictions to Vermont’s motel voucher program last year, over 1,500 people experiencing homelessness were pushed out of hotels and motels. The mass wave of evictions last fall left many Vermonters in precarious situations, some sleeping in tents — including families with young children — and prompted public outcry from service providers, municipal officials, and even some legislators who helped craft the law. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Middlebury is getting a new neighborhood.

By CARLY BERLIN

The federal government has given Vermont the green light to use funds from the low-income health care program Medicaid to pay for housing programs for people experiencing homelessness who have high medical needs.

By CARLY BERLIN

During the first days of his fifth term in office, Gov. Phil Scott has emphasized a familiar priority: creating more housing across Vermont. At a Tuesday press conference at the Statehouse, members of his administration outlined how they want lawmakers to do that.