You're confusing tourism with second homes.

Opiates and lack of mental health care are what drives 95% of long term homelessness. There are a smattering of alcoholics as well. One of the biggest myths of homelessness is that you or I or anyone else is just a job loss away from homelessness. This is simply not true for most everyone. Most people have support networks, they haven't burned all their bridges. Almost all of the long term homeless have addiction or mental health issues or both.

Vermont has no real desire to fix this. Clearly, we need to build housing. A lot of housing. Like another Burlington, or close to it. What the legislature and the moneyed class want is a VT that looks like it did in the 19th century, plus maybe an apple store. They want VT to be a tourist mecca and a place to live for those who are independently wealthy. That's why VTs "fix" is to put people in hotels and anytime the clock runs out on that the legislature extends it because they want nothing to do with a permanent solution.

Basing them in the middle of the most populated area of the state is a bit of a head scratcher but I'm used to it at this point. Worse in the summer with windows open, but you just stop what you're doing until they're gone.

Why do we need to ruin maple syrup? Maple syrup is most like maple syrup. Leave it alone.

I honestly have no idea about the significance of 88 or 14. I am definitely not a white supremacist though, Ive spent way too much time around white people to think we are special in any way.

You should not need to worry about it. Main roads are cleared relatively quickly. Unless you are driving while the snow is falling, and lots of it is falling, you'll be fine.

Winooski all the time. The sound of freedom is the line we usually get.

We have a tiny population. Any federal money we get is divided among a much smaller group of people so we can do more with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Absolutely. I was just debating that the people being paid are landlords. They are not, they're hotel owners.

For a few days in 1863 it was the Mason Dixon line.

How are payments to motel 6, quality inn, etc a landlord welfare program? These are hotels, not landlords. The payments go to hotels because they're aren't apartments to put people in.

Yeah, apologies. Rereading some of the comments, some people who are saying inaccurate are saying it's an under count. No argument on that.

3+ years really.

The hotel voucher program is not a landlord welfare program, it's what the legislature prefers to do rather than build housing.

What I hear is a lot of frustration with VT turning into a version of Aspen. In my opinion, people and politicians ignore that frustration at their peril.

I think rich people moving here to work from home is creating a boring, stuffy, homogenous VT that is becoming a difficult, terrible place to live. On the flip side of that, if someone wants to move here from Ohio to be a teacher, or work in a local business, that's great. Please come. For me it's not about tribalism, it's about VT being a place for more than one group of people.

Anything that paints VT as something other than a liberal utopia welcoming to all is dismissed. The cognitive dissonance of a state that is increasingly exclusive and the desire to be welcoming to everyone is too much for some people.

It could be that, could be tied to funding, could be as simple as someone chose January to do an annual count.