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Sep 26, 2024 | 
reformer.com | Anne Sosin
Toddlers living in cars. Elderly Vermonters residing in tents. Residents dependent on oxygen, insulin, and wheelchairs dumped on the street. Vermonters displaced by flooding face the trauma of eviction from their only option for shelter. Overwhelmed first responders. Emergency departments at breaking point. School campuses hosting encampments. Businesses and services struggling to operate amid growing encampments.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
timesargus.com | Anne Sosin
Toddlers living in cars. Elderly Vermonters residing in tents. Residents dependent on oxygen, insulin and wheelchairs dumped on the street. Vermonters displaced by flooding facing the trauma of eviction from their only option for shelter. Overwhelmed first responders. Emergency departments at breaking point. School campuses hosting encampments. Businesses and services struggling to operate amid growing encampments.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
rutlandherald.com | Anne Sosin
Toddlers living in cars. Elderly Vermonters residing in tents. Residents dependent on oxygen, insulin and wheelchairs dumped on the street. Vermonters displaced by flooding facing the trauma of eviction from their only option for shelter. Overwhelmed first responders. Emergency departments at breaking point. School campuses hosting encampments. Businesses and services struggling to operate amid growing encampments.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
manchesterjournal.com | Anne Sosin
Toddlers living in cars. Elderly Vermonters residing in tents. Residents dependent on oxygen, insulin, and wheelchairs dumped on the street. Vermonters displaced by flooding face the trauma of eviction from their only option for shelter. Overwhelmed first responders. Emergency departments at breaking point. School campuses hosting encampments. Businesses and services struggling to operate amid growing encampments.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Gregg Gonsalves |Anne Sosin
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
reformer.com | Anne Sosin
As states across the country grappled with how to confront a growing tide of homelessness, Vermont had a chance to be the first state to end unsheltered homelessness. Despite confronting the second highest rate of homelessness in the U.S. in 2022, the state had achieved the lowest percentage of unsheltered, or “street” homelessness, thanks to its pandemic-era motel shelter program. This offered an opportunity for bold action to confront a crisis that was already garnering national attention.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
timesargus.com | Anne Sosin
As states across the country grappled with how to confront a growing tide of homelessness, Vermont had a chance to be the first state to end unsheltered homelessness. Despite confronting the second-highest rate of homelessness in the U.S. in 2022, the state had achieved the lowest percentage of unsheltered, or “street” homelessness, thanks to its pandemic-era motel shelter program. This offered an opportunity for bold action to confront a crisis already garnering national attention. Instead, Gov.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
caledonianrecord.com | Anne Sosin
As states across the country grappled with how to confront a growing tide of homelessness, Vermont had a chance to be the first state to end unsheltered homelessness. Despite confronting the second highest rate of homelessness in the US in 2022, the state had achieved the lowest percentage of unsheltered, or "street" homelessness, thanks to its pandemic-era motel shelter program. This offered an opportunity for bold action to confront a crisis that was already garnering national attention.
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May 23, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Anne Sosin |Gregg Gonsalves |Mychal Denzel Smith
By the time my research brought me to the town of Derby Line, Vt., in late summer 2021, opposition to Covid public health measures had hardened, just like the late summer dirt roads of the three-county area of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. School board meetings had become battlegrounds for debates on masking. Yet signs calling for a kidney donor for a local resident also peppered this remote outpost on the Canadian border.
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Apr 29, 2023 | 
timesargus.com | Anne Sosin
Confronted with the second-highest rate of homelessness in the United States and a spiraling housing crisis, Vermont leaders are poised to approve a budget that will send upwards of 2,000 unhoused Vermonters sheltered in motels back to cars, streets, tents and city parks. Guiding these policy decisions are two myths: (one) that we do not know the solutions to the state’s homelessness crisis and (two) nor do we know the costs of inaction.
