Vermont poured hundreds of millions of dollars into housing during the pandemic. What has it built?

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This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.

After the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Vermont’s long-simmering housing crunch reached a boiling point. Home prices jumped dramatically, the state’s rental vacancy rate constricted , and its unhoused population tripled .

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