Brattleboro Reformer Launches Series on How Vermont’s Regulations Fuel a Housing Catastrophe
Vermonters are calling for lawmakers to make real changes or make way for more reasonable legislators who put the needs of the state over their own viewpoints.
Studies, surveys, focus groups, committees, conferences — you name it — Vermont has spent decades diagnosing its housing shortage without dismantling the maze of regulations that make building new homes nearly impossible.
In the opening installment of a new investigative series, the Brattleboro Reformer details how a combination of outdated laws, hyper-local opposition, and multi-layered permitting has pushed the state into what housing advocates call a “self-inflicted crisis.”
Read the first installment here: