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Vermont is desperate for new homes. Is it time to build them in factories?
02-08-2025 4:01 PM

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. 

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After hundreds of motel evictions, some Vermont lawmakers are hoping to set a different path
02-07-2025 10:00 AM

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. 


Middlebury College, developer and town join forces on major housing project
02-06-2025 10:00 AM

By CARLY BERLIN

Middlebury is getting a new neighborhood.


Feds OK use of Medicaid funds to cover rent for unhoused people
01-24-2025 10:00 AM

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.


Phil Scott outlines proposal for making it ‘faster, easier and less expensive’ to build housing
01-23-2025 9:43 AM

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.


New group of power players will lobby for housing policy in Montpelier
01-17-2025 9:17 AM

By CARLY BERLIN

A new pro-housing advocacy group has entered the scene at the Vermont Statehouse. Their message: Vermont needs to build, build, build, or else the state’s housing deficit will pose an existential threat to its future economy. 


Vermont to receive $68M for long-term disaster recovery
01-10-2025 8:37 AM

By CARLY BERLIN

Vermont will receive nearly $68 million in federal long-term disaster recovery funding tied to the July 2023 floods. The funding, announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday, comes out of a $12 billion allocation for communities impacted by disasters across the nation in recent years, from fires in Hawaii to hurricanes in Florida and North Carolina. 


With major changes to Act 250 underway, a new board takes the reins
01-07-2025 8:58 AM

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott has appointed the members of a new board that will administer Act 250, Vermont’s statewide development review law. The new Land Use Review Board replaces the old Natural Resources Board, a shift mandated under Act 181, a major land-use...


Vermont’s rate of homelessness now ranks 4th in the nation
01-02-2025 5:31 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

As the number of people experiencing homelessness in Vermont continues to rise to record levels, the Green Mountain State’s per-capita rate of homelessness remains among the highest in the nation.That’s according to a new analysis of the 2024...


Vermont’s motel program turns away hundreds for lack of space, ahead of single-digit temps
12-22-2024 7:56 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

Vermont’s motel voucher program for people experiencing homelessness has turned hundreds of people away so far this month because it lacks enough rooms to shelter them. That comes as temperatures are forecast to plummet into the single digits this...


Vermont loosened Act 250 rules for housing. Here’s where developers are responding
12-12-2024 3:28 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

When 10 apartments at the new Armory House building just outside of downtown Vergennes opened in June, they all had tenants within two weeks. To developer Peter Kahn, the building’s developer, watching the new apartments fill up so quickly — most...


‘It’s heartbreaking’: Death at Vermont encampment comes days after two other deaths
12-05-2024 10:30 AM

By CARLY BERLIN

A person was found dead at an encampment behind a shopping center on Route 302 in Berlin, Vt., on Saturday night, James Pontbriand, chief of the Berlin Police Department, confirmed in a Tuesday interview.The department has released little information...


Vermont’s motel program poised for more limited winter access
11-26-2024 4:00 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

With colder weather approaching, the rules governing Vermont’s motel voucher program are about to shift for the winter – and will be more restrictive than in prior years. Meanwhile, shelters across the state are getting seasonal expansions up and...


Vermont pushed hundreds of people out of motels this fall. Here’s where some ended up.
11-25-2024 4:01 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

Earlier this year, it seemed like Corey Moquin was beginning to get his feet under him. In March, Moquin, 39, had entered Vermont’s motel voucher program after a stint at a hospital receiving treatment for his mental health. By mid-September, he had...


After years of appeals, Vermont Supreme Court ruling clears path for Putney affordable housing project
11-25-2024 2:01 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

A ruling by Vermont’s highest court last week has cleared the way for an affordable housing development in Putney, Vt., to move forward, following a years-long legal battle brought on by a couple of neighbors.“We’re finally at the end of a long...


State to set up 3 family shelters as many lose motel housing
10-18-2024 1:01 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

State officials are working to assemble three emergency family shelters following the evictions of over 1,000 people from Vermont’s motel voucher program this fall.Two sites – the former State Police barracks in Willison, and the Waterbury Armory –...


As many lose motel housing, 91 lawmakers demand more shelters, state of emergency
10-02-2024 2:39 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

Nearly 100 Vermont legislators and Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman are now calling for Gov. Phil Scott to intervene on a mass wave of evictions currently underway from the state’s motel voucher program for people experiencing homelessness.“These are the most...


After losing their motel room, a family of four prepares to pitch a tent
09-22-2024 8:31 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

James and Teala Ouimette began their day at the Harbor Place hotel in Shelburne getting their two daughters off to school. The two girls, ages four and five, both have autism; the younger is nonverbal. Just like each morning, a shuttle picked the...


Vermont’s new motel room limits are primed to push out hundreds of households this fall
08-20-2024 6:31 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

When Mary Mojica’s Waterbury apartment flooded last summer, all she could grab were a couple of boxes, some clothes, and her dog, Bella. Since then, Mojica, 59, has taken up residence at the Days Inn in Colchester, with the aid of a voucher from...


Montpelier moves to shut down encampment at former country club property
08-10-2024 5:01 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

The city of Montpelier is asking people to leave an encampment that has grown this summer at the site of a former country club where the city hopes to develop housing.On Wednesday, city workers put up orange barricades around the parking lot at the...


Displaced by another round of flooding, Vermont renters have few options
07-28-2024 6:01 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

The house Allison Doe rented in Plainfield hadn’t been a perfect home. Doe, 64, moved to the Brook Road residence five years ago from Williston because she was excited to live “in the country,” she said. A former animal hospital employee, she loved...

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