Vermont
Siegel lays out vision to alleviate Vermont housing shortage
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) – The Democratic candidate for governor is laying out her imaginative and prescient of deal with Vermont’s housing scarcity.
Brenda Siegel is difficult incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Scott.
If elected, Siegel says she would arrange a housing process drive to quantify Vermont’s housing provide and the present demand.
Siegel additionally says she’d earmark cash for emergency and short-term housing, scaling up pods much like these in Burlington and filling empty dorm rooms on school campuses.
She additionally says she would make investments in long-term and everlasting housing.
“This isn’t nearly homelessness and our rental help, that is each group at virtually each earnings stage throughout the state,” Siegel stated.
Siegel says she would additionally introduce a “housing invoice of rights” and rules on short-term leases.
Gov. Phil Scott factors to a latest $250 million funding in housing which is being constructed proper now. Scott additionally says Act 250 and native zoning reforms are wanted.
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