In this "Locked Out" series of stories throughout 2022, Seven Days has traced the contours of the housing crisis. In this final installment, Seven Days looks at how Vermonters' resistance to development and exclusionary zoning practices make swaths of Vermont inaccessible to lower-income renters or first-time home buyers. "If we don't build a lot more housing and rehab a lot more housing," Charlie Baker, executive director of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission to Seven Days, "Vermont is going to become even more gentrified, as Vermonters can't afford to live here and we become the vacation paradise of New England." https://www.sevendaysvt.com/.../expensive.../Content...
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