You might’ve noticed an addition to our website. We have officially launched a new housing section, featuring all of our coverage on the state’s housing shortage, impacts of repeated flooding, issues surrounding homelessness and more.
The new Housing category rounds out our news topics to eight, joining Health, Environment, Government & Politics, Economy, Life & Culture, Education and Public Safety.
These categories not only help you, the reader, navigate our site more easily, but also demonstrate what our reporting priorities are as a news organization.
Since summer 2023, housing reporter Carly Berlin has been covering housing for VTDigger and Vermont Public through a Report for America partnership, focusing on issues such as:
- The impacts of repeated flooding on Vermont’s housing stock
- State leaders’ response to rising homelessness
- The experiences of unhoused Vermonters and other residents navigating the state’s housing market
- The wide-ranging economic impacts of Vermont’s severe lack of homes — and the efforts to boost the state’s housing supply
- All things housing-policy related at the Statehouse, from land use law to funding for affordable housing programs to tenant protections
- The impacts of federal changes to housing policy and funding on Vermonters
We’ve recently published pieces on a plan to overhaul the state’s response to homelessness and dissolve the motel voucher program, the need for wastewater infrastructure, the possibility of building new homes in factories and the results of recent changes to state land use rules.
If you value VTDigger’s coverage of housing — one of the most urgent issues facing Vermont — please consider becoming a sustaining monthly member. Reader support makes it possible for Carly and our other reporters to investigate policy decisions, share the stories of those most affected and hold leaders accountable. Your one-time or monthly gift ensures this essential work continues.
