Burlington Standard

Vermont currently has the lowest vacancy rate in the U.S. at 2.5%, with Chittenden County plunging down to a 0.4% vacancy rate. "It’s time for Vermont to stop debating solutions that are inconsistent with the evidence and set the state further back from other parts of the country," Anne Sosin, public health practitioner and policy fellow at the Dartmouth Rockefeller Center, wrote in a commentary to VTDigger  earlier this month.  Sosin points to the starkly different results of Vermont's housing policies - including the abrupt and impending end of emergency rental assistance and transitional motel housing- and the states using the Housing First model which have successfully reduced homelessness significantly. Sosin calls on policy makers for a bold, aggress housing plan which includes"...not only the need for physical infrastructure but also for wraparound services for Housing First approaches. ... The Legislature and leaders from other sectors must set aside the business-as-usual mentality and address the varied policy, regulatory, structural and political barriers to developing affordable housing at scale." https://vtdigger.org/.../anne-sosin-homelessness-is-a.../

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