Just curious, are you one of the 4 people who got fired?

You can feel the cold in this picture

Yes but housing also needs to be cheaper and there needs to be laws that only full-time Vermonters, buying their ONLY home, can live there. Otherwise it will just get snatched up by the wealthy again.

Affordable housing and jobs that pay a living wage. You know, the extreme bare minimum of the American dream. Is that too much to ask?

True. It’d also be great PR for our own government if they helped folks. Like, actual help.

It was removed by the moderators. They didn’t tell me why.

What happened to the r/burlington post?

In my opinion, since this has been a long running issue and there is legislative super-majority in Vt right now, if there is no major moves towards resolving the issue during this General assemblies term then every current Statewide and General Assembly elected official should be up for replacement.

There’s too much federal money floating around in the State’s hands for there to so little progress on this issue.

Build public housing. Ban Airbnbs.

Doing great! New Mitsubishis here. Ran the pipes overnight, kept the baby warm and cozy with a nursery heater. But also, I'm in SoVT like most of this sub isn't, so we're not as cold as y'all up there.

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Alternative idea, after we tax hell, out of second homes is to renovate empty motels in affordable housing. I know this is already happening in my area, but when I drive around I see a lot of out of business and empty motels

We've gotta build more housing. Homelessness is largely a product of an impossible housing market.

Tell your representatives and senators you want them to support the housing bills in the legislature to make it easier to build in Vermont's towns and cities.

Yeah but how could there possibly be an organization like that? It's not like every single town in Vermont has big buildings with tons of available space and the organizations that run them are tax free...

Also, even if there were it's not like those organizations literally state their mission is to help people, serve the poor and needy, and welcome all comers.

Oh wait.....

The price of raw materials is still high and wages have gone up because of significant inflation so buildings homes is expensive. Combine that with all the regulation iand redtape and building homes is not cheap here. Sure mobile and modular homes can be cheaper but A lot of available land is not connected to city utilities due to distance and cost. you’ll need a septic system, drill a well, have gas bottles, all that adds up.

I understand why the locals don’t like a lot of transplants because those transplants try to turn this state into where they came from without caring about the needs of the locals. I’m friendly with my neighbors and most of them have been excessively kind to the point. I’ve come home super late from work more than a few times to find my driveway plowed by a random neighbor just being kind because they noticed I got stuck at work and wouldn’t be home until midnight. I bought a house in the country expecting that my neighbors would target shoot, hunt, keep animals, make a little noise at odd hours because they got to go to work and that’s fine by me. Then you’ve got transplants that treat the state like a theme park and expect to be worshiped for bringing their remote job here, I get why they wouldn’t be popular.

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It'll be great to ride for 4 weeks in Vermont!

Oh I understand what you’re saying, skilled trades pay terrible here.

The fact that you’re using the word “musings” makes me feel like you’re a douchebag

Gosh if only there was a worldwide organization that was all about serving the poor and had property in nearly every town and village. Guess such groups if they exist have other priorities though, too bad. it would be great PR.

“The state’s overall percentage increase in homelessness from 2020 to 2022 was the highest in the nation.”

Also, I agree with the sentiment about helping people regardless of invisible lines, but in a small state with limited resources it sucks to see something implemented with good intentions to help a serious problem in our state, be taken advantage of and overrun by people coming in.

On a national level I agree, we need to help people 1000%

Yeah I’d support some national measures for sure. Vermont was never a migration area for homeless people until the Covid era free hotels, hence my comment. Since we’ve started that program we’ve seen an unprecedented increase in homeless in Vermont. Nationally it’s a complicated issue and I’ve never seen coherent policies, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t support something.

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