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By CARLY BERLIN

Inside a cavernous factory at the end of a road in East Montpelier, houses get built piece by piece on an assembly line. 

By CARLY BERLIN

The Legislature has once again sent a midyear spending bill to Gov. Phil Scott’s desk, but a partisan standoff over Vermont’s motel voucher program continues to unfold.

By CARLY BERLIN

The Legislature’s chief lawyer has deemed Gov. Phil Scott’s move to extend motel voucher eligibility for a narrow segment of unhoused Vermonters an “unconstitutional consolidation of power.” 

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott took executive action on Friday to extend motel voucher stays for unhoused families with children and certain people with acute medical needs through June 30. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Last summer’s flooding rendered Chris Duprey and his family homeless. When floodwaters ripped through the small town of Plainfield, Vt., they claimed the manufactured home Duprey rented with his wife and two young children. For the last five months, the Motel 6 in Colchester, Vt., has been home to the family of four, with the aid of a state voucher.

By CARLY BERLIN

Amid an increasingly heated debate over Vermont’s motel voucher program, Gov. Phil Scott’s administration has rejected a compromise proposal on a midyear spending bill presented by Democratic legislative leaders late Tuesday.

By CARLY BERLIN

Without the votes to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto on a midyear spending bill, Democratic leaders in the Legislature have narrowed their focus to asking the governor to extend motel shelter for some unhoused Vermonters.

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott delivered his first veto of the 2025 legislative session over a midyear spending package on Friday, setting up a showdown over Vermont’s motel shelter program.

By CARLY BERLIN

MONTGOMERY, Vt. — Standing near the main crossroads in this eastern Franklin County town of 1,200, Charlie Hancock made his pitch for the town center’s first-ever municipal sewer system. It’s one the longtime Selectboard chair has had plenty of time to refine — it’s been six-plus years since community wastewater emerged as a key objective for the town. 

By CARLY BERLIN

After state leaders signed off on new restrictions to Vermont’s motel voucher program last year, over 1,500 people experiencing homelessness were pushed out of hotels and motels. The mass wave of evictions last fall left many Vermonters in precarious situations, some sleeping in tents — including families with young children — and prompted public outcry from service providers, municipal officials, and even some legislators who helped craft the law. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Middlebury is getting a new neighborhood.

By CARLY BERLIN

The federal government has given Vermont the green light to use funds from the low-income health care program Medicaid to pay for housing programs for people experiencing homelessness who have high medical needs.

By CARLY BERLIN

During the first days of his fifth term in office, Gov. Phil Scott has emphasized a familiar priority: creating more housing across Vermont. At a Tuesday press conference at the Statehouse, members of his administration outlined how they want lawmakers to do that.

By CARLY BERLIN

A new pro-housing advocacy group has entered the scene at the Vermont Statehouse. Their message: Vermont needs to build, build, build, or else the state’s housing deficit will pose an existential threat to its future economy. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Vermont will receive nearly $68 million in federal long-term disaster recovery funding tied to the July 2023 floods. The funding, announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday, comes out of a $12 billion allocation for communities impacted by disasters across the nation in recent years, from fires in Hawaii to hurricanes in Florida and North Carolina. 

By CARLY BERLIN

Gov. Phil Scott has appointed the members of a new board that will administer Act 250, Vermont’s statewide development review law. The new Land Use Review Board replaces the old Natural Resources Board, a shift mandated under Act 181, a major land-use...

By CARLY BERLIN

As the number of people experiencing homelessness in Vermont continues to rise to record levels, the Green Mountain State’s per-capita rate of homelessness remains among the highest in the nation.That’s according to a new analysis of the 2024...

By CARLY BERLIN

Vermont’s motel voucher program for people experiencing homelessness has turned hundreds of people away so far this month because it lacks enough rooms to shelter them. That comes as temperatures are forecast to plummet into the single digits this...

By CARLY BERLIN

When 10 apartments at the new Armory House building just outside of downtown Vergennes opened in June, they all had tenants within two weeks. To developer Peter Kahn, the building’s developer, watching the new apartments fill up so quickly — most...

By CARLY BERLIN

A person was found dead at an encampment behind a shopping center on Route 302 in Berlin, Vt., on Saturday night, James Pontbriand, chief of the Berlin Police Department, confirmed in a Tuesday interview.The department has released little information...

By CARLY BERLIN

With colder weather approaching, the rules governing Vermont’s motel voucher program are about to shift for the winter – and will be more restrictive than in prior years. Meanwhile, shelters across the state are getting seasonal expansions up and...