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In the opening installment of a new investigative series, the Brattleboro Reformer details how a combination of outdated laws, hyper-local opposition, and multi-layered permitting has pushed the state into what housing advocates call a “self-inflicted crisis.”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: