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MYrobouros t1_j7p5pkl wrote

There's a great plan from the DHCD and the Congress for the New Urbanism. It aims to continue historical patterns in villages and towns with things like cottage courts, mid density multiuse areas, and accessory dwelling units.

VT won't be affordable without new housing, and specifically the right kind of new housing to help young new families and aging Vermonters be able to live here. I love my drafty old farmhouse but it's not the right house for most people in this state anymore and it probably never will be again.

https://www.cnu.org/vermont

A big part of our problem is with relatively recent zoning changes that require things like large minimum lots. That sounds like it preserves VT on its surface but the result is 1 house every 3 acres and no woods at all.

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Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_j7rhaxl wrote

It's going to be "stuff the poors (locals) in shitty condos in Williston and leave the pristine areas for the fresh arrivals from Jersey." No thanks. I personally am leaving as soon as I can because I have no interest in being one of the last people working here, trying to do 3 people's jobs while living in a ratty apartment.

Want to know why families are homeless? I'm a single guy with an advanced degree and a decent job. I'm stuck in a shit apartment because there's absolutely no where to move to. Instead of my shit apartment going to a young single mom or someone exiting homelessness, it's being occupied by me so that rich people can live on a few acres.

The future of VT is one of a bunch of old rich people unable to even buy groceries because there's no one here to sell them to them.

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