Next Steps
Besides building additional permanent housing across Vermont as quickly as is possible and also providing enough funding to the array of housing and social service providers with which to ensure sufficient provision of various high quality support and services being made available and offered on a voluntary basis (read related commentary of mine, here ; via vtdigger ; circa: 2013), what more will be necessary to help better address the most dire needs of those living unhoused within our region? In a nutshell, according to my read of a recent vtdigger article ( here ) , it is providing an adequate medical respite housing program within an accessible home-like environment based in a community of one's choosing. Good Samaritan Welcome Center , located on Route 302 in Berlin and had been the former Twin City Motel, opened its doors to people living unhoused in the Summer of 2022 (read related blog post of theirs, here ): [...] With tremendous financial investment from VHCB and generou...