Vermont’s Housing Crisis Deepens | Montpelier News

Vermont’s cut of 400 emergency motel rooms leaves over 600 kids and families sleeping in cars or outdoors, shifting costs to hospitals and schools while making housing access even harder. The path to subsidized housing is a tangled maze of applications, waiting lists, and denials based on past evictions — a cruel catch-22. To fix it, Vermont needs a unified statewide system that matches people with available housing and collects data on what causes homelessness and what works to stop it. Listen in comfort: Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN: [email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting. Sources: https://vtdigger.org/2026/09/16/opinion-homeless-in-vermont-the-path-to-housing-is-harder-than-it-should-be/ More coverage & latest updates: https://sources.thednn.ai/e89506edf6aa31f1 Report issues to [email protected].