Montpelier PEN UPDATE (6/11/23): The eviction of thousands of homeless Vermonters from motels continues

 

Last weekend (June 3&4) I sent you all articles written as of June 4 about about the end of the motel program for thousands of Vermonters (see Montpelier PEN Update 6/4/23) and I wrote: 

Please understand that this didn’t have to happen and that no one’s hands are clean. We are all to blame for this tragic situation.

Below are articles written since June 3 that make it even more abundantly clear that this didn’t need to happen, that it was foreseeable and avoidable, and yet the Democratic party legislative supermajority and the Republican governor who was overwhelmingly re-elected by Vermonters across the political spectrum in 2022 did nothing to prevent this from happening and are still doing nothing but blame each other.

Blunt Force Triage, (The Vermont Political Observer, 6/12/23)

Lt. Gov. Zuckerman: Housing the unhoused poses a moral dilemma  (VTDigger, 6/11/23)

https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/11/lt-gov-zuckerman-housing-the-unhoused-poses-a-moral-dilemma/

That $12.5 Million is Going to Vanish Like an Ice Cube on the Face of the Sun (The Vermont Political Observer, 6/9/23)

The PIT Report Casts a Harsh Light on Our Political Betters (The Vermont Political Observer, 6/8/23)

As pandemic era motel programs end, tenants struggle to claim their deposits (VTDigger, 6/8/23)

This year’s count finds homelessness has climbed nearly 19% in Vermont (VTDigger, 6/7/23)

It is We Who Are: Montpelier Congregations of Faith (the bridge, 6/7/23)

Building an Emergency Shelter Community to Address Homelessness (6/7/23 ORCA video presentation) and an article about this presentation: Learning from Burlington: Could Pods Serve Montpelier’s Unhoused Residents? (the bridge, 6/23)

Council [Barre] mostly quiet on ‘camping’ waits for word on shelter (Times-Argus, 6/7/23)

What Vermont can learn from its forgotten motel voucher crisis of 2013 (VTDigger, 6/7/23)

Motel Exodus Begins (the bridge, 6/6/23)

Vermont’s Annual 2023 Point in Time Count of Those Experiencing Homelessness (Chittenden County Homeless Alliance and the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness, 6/6/23)

Burlington asks state to fund new emergency shelter, motel stays  (VTDigger, 6/5/23)