Vermont housing coverage at VTDigger
VTDigger reports on housing issues affecting Vermonters, including affordability, homelessness, development regulations, landlord and tenant protections and the state’s motel shelter program.
This page gathers our coverage of housing policy and community impacts, providing reporting and context on one of the state’s most pressing challenges.
Housing Authority seeks Hartford-area land donations
The corporation has identified “job centers,” including Hartford, Rutland, Brattleboro and Montpelier, where it would like to place single-family homes.
Phil Scott signs bill that will restructure Vermont’s homelessness response
H.938 tries to better organize the fragmented system serving the roughly 4,000 people experiencing homelessness in Vermont.
Vermont’s low-income housing voucher programs begin to stabilize after more than a year of anxiety
Federal funding decisions have helped Vermont’s housing authorities out of an emergency posture. One is granting new vouchers to help people pay for apartments.
Burlington-area rental market cools off, bringing some relief for tenants
A dramatic jump in new apartments in Chittenden County and a dip in demand have contributed to the rising vacancy rate.
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Affordable housing complex opens in downtown Waterbury
Three of the 26 new apartments are reserved for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and five are set aside for people exiting homelessness.
Hundreds of housing units in the works at closely-watched project in Burlington’s South End
With more than 200 units, the project is the beginning of “a new neighborhood being born out of a big parking lot,” said Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak.
Partial repeal of Vermont’s land-use law Act 181 heads to Gov. Phil Scott’s desk
The rollback is a win for a vocal coalition of rural landowners that sprung up this spring to protest the law.
Vermont landlord-tenant bill falls apart in surprise Senate tiebreaker
The bill’s dramatic demise disappointed Rep. Marc Mihaly, D-Calais, its sponsor. “It’s not like we need more testimony,” he said. “What we need is people making decisions.”
Counseling Service of Addison County, builder join forces on new homes
PADs are mobile single-story units that can seamlessly and comfortably accommodate a wheelchair-using resident.
Legislators reject Gov. Scott’s loosening of wetland protections
The governor’s administration had moved to allow housing development in certain unmapped wetlands and to cut in half the buffer zone around wetlands.
Lawmakers attempt to reorganize supports for unhoused Vermonters while limiting motel use
The Vermont Senate approved a bill to curb the reliance on motels, but one shelter provider said “It’s not enough money to really be a solutions-based bill.”
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