Yes, a new way to let a robot dispense concrete is clearly the path forward! /s

Doesn't mean they aren't eligible. There are no durational residency requirements for state benefits in VT that I know of. I can guarantee there aren't any durational residency requirements for housing benefits.

You would shoot yourselves in the foot by losing all of the local tax revenue and tourism jobs if they leave

I don't see how this is fixable. Even if we build a ton of sprawl, locals will just be outbid in all cash offers.

As an outsider, you already “tax the shit” out of second homes, which, by the way, bring tens of thousands of jobs to the state, fund your schools, fund your police, etc

The interesting thing is if you walk around the garages of those new winooski buildings probably half the cars are out of state plates, usual suspects. Looks like college students but I'm not sure.

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Or maybe because, while this sounds like a great idea, the implementation is a nightmare.

You are wrong. Pretty much no one who is homeless is getting housed the very same day right now. Period. Don’t believe me? See yesterday’s availability per Economic Services: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/EA/Housing.pdf

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Idk about him but my handle was assigned by reddit. Cats are unnecessary.

Yea, I read that. It sucks; still, we're doing a worse job of it here in WA.

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Rutland, Franklin County, NEK.

VT is doing a good job of sheltering people temporarily but that is going to come to a sudden end sometime in the next few months when the federal money dries up.

There used to be yearly or bi yearly high school building trades projects that would use hs students to build a house complete from start to finish. Granted these programs were not present in every school district i went to but many had them. idk the details of those programs in particular but friends and acquaintances were in them and it always struck me even back then that this should be widespread to combat homelessness. We could do a half dozen tiny homes in every county seat for the cost of a few dozen hotel vouchers.

Must have been hard to tell the difference from a normal weekday.

Second homes are already being taxed. Nothing to do with property rights. Why should we cater to wealthy outsiders and continue to shoot ourselves in the foot? Just use the money to fund universal childcare for Vermonters or something like that.

You absolutely can walk into the state and get housed that day.

When I was in school in the 80's it happened many times at our school. Friggin PIA so stupid. Do something productive with your lives instead of disrupting people's lives like this. Love each other. Be kind friends and be safe.

I had to go read the article bc I'm in Seattle and there's no way Vermont is worse than here. The number and ranking is counted as a per capita unit which is fine because it does tell a story but it shouldn't be used for the ranking imo. And VT has only 2% that aren't sheltered. I'd say VT is doing a much better job than most places. We have so many unhoused, unsheltered ppl here. Giant tent cities , massive piles of garbage. Its like whackamole here cause they finally clean one up due to a fatal stabbing or fire, and then they just pop up somewhere else.

I have empathy for the ppl. I used to work in a women's and children's shelter in the area. But the news stories trying to humanize the situation are frustrating to me because even if the unsheltered say they weren't always like this, then why do they leave garbage and trash and poop everywhere? They go to the store for food, they can buy a trash bag and keep their garbage collected if they really haven't always been like this. (The ppl is shelters are not generally the ones doing this though, just to clarify)

The affordable housing situation is a problem everywhere and it's so frustrating that at almost every level of government no one who has the power and funding will do anything about it.

Exactly. Right-wing domestic terrorism has been steadily rising since the 90s but folks still want to ignore it.

Thats a disturbingly accurate quote.

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Similar to the domestic terrorists who are shooting and trying to destroy our power grid.