It’s not a secret — Vermont is experiencing a housing crisis. There’s so much going on (high rents, escalating home prices, motel vouchers, eviction moratoriums, mobile home park affordability, housing discrimination) it can be hard to know what’s happening and what we can do about it. 

Four housing advocates join the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC) in this video series to highlight some of issues Vermont residents face accessing safe, quality, accessible and affordable housing—and how we must keep these multiple issues in mind as we increase investment in housing.

The video covers mobile home infrastructure with CVOEO’s former Mobile Home Program Resident Organizer Laura Mistretta; evictions in the aftermath of COVID19 with CVOEO’s Vermont Tenants Advocate Madeline Roberts; fair housing and discrimination with CVOEO Fair Housing Project Education and Outreach Coordinator Corrine Yonce, and broadband access with Evernorth Director of Asset Management Rewa Worthington.

In the words of CVOEO’s Corrine Yonce, “The creation of housing that starts happening this fall and will continue for a couple years because of this [federal] funding influx is going to impact the housing landscape and the overall community landscape of Vermont for decades to come. … We need to make sure that our new housing being created actually enables housing choice.”