{"id":625174,"date":"2025-06-18T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/?p=625174"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:17:11","slug":"why-we-created-a-new-housing-section-on-vtdigger-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/06\/18\/why-we-created-a-new-housing-section-on-vtdigger-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we created a new housing section on VTDigger.org"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" data-attachment-id=\"624174\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/housing-16-20250606\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/housing-16-20250606.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1663\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Glenn Russell&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Houses along Central Avenue in Burlington on Friday, June 6, 2025. 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We have officially launched <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/housing\/\">a new housing section<\/a>, featuring all of our coverage on the state\u2019s housing shortage, impacts of repeated flooding, issues surrounding homelessness and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/housing\/\">new Housing category<\/a> rounds out our news topics to eight, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/health\/\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/environment\/\">Environment<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/government-politics\/\">Government &amp; Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/economy\/\">Economy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/life-culture\/\">Life &amp; Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/education\/\">Education<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/public-safety\/\">Public Safety<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These categories not only help you, the reader, navigate our site more easily, but also demonstrate what our reporting priorities are as a news organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since summer 2023, housing reporter Carly Berlin has been covering housing for VTDigger and Vermont Public through a Report for America partnership, focusing on issues such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The impacts of repeated flooding on Vermont\u2019s housing stock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>State leaders\u2019 response to rising homelessness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The experiences of unhoused Vermonters and other residents navigating the state\u2019s housing market<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The wide-ranging economic impacts of Vermont\u2019s severe lack of homes \u2014 and the efforts to boost the state&#8217;s housing supply<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All things housing-policy related at the Statehouse, from land use law to funding for affordable housing programs to tenant protections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The impacts of federal changes to housing policy and funding on Vermonters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve recently published pieces on <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/04\/18\/plan-would-overhaul-vermonts-response-to-homelessness-dissolving-statewide-motel-program\/\">a plan to overhaul the state\u2019s response to homelessness and dissolve the motel voucher program<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/02\/25\/to-add-housing-in-much-of-vermont-you-need-wastewater-infrastructure-local-opposition-can-kill-it\/\">the need for wastewater infrastructure<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2025\/01\/31\/vermont-is-desperate-for-new-homes-is-it-time-to-build-them-in-factories\/\">the possibility of building new homes in factories<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2024\/12\/11\/vermont-loosened-act-250-rules-for-housing-heres-where-developers-are-responding\/\">the results of recent changes to state land use rules<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you value VTDigger\u2019s coverage of housing \u2014 one of the most urgent issues facing Vermont \u2014 please consider becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.vtdigger.org\/?campaign=701PQ00000ZTge2YAD\">sustaining monthly member<\/a>. 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