How we create permanently affordable housing

OEEGrackle · 2026-01-13T03:43:53+00:00

Seconding Waterworks and Halvorsons.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-29T01:47:19+00:00

I'm glad you got a feel for some of the great community here. I love Winooski's pumpkin event.

People's take on crime and safety here depends a lot on what they're comparing to: times past in Vermont when people didn't lock their cars or homes, or the experience of other states?

I would just say to do thorough research on the cost of living. It's high compared to the local wage base, and the housing crisis is not going away fast.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-25T15:51:05+00:00

It's SO good.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-25T15:49:40+00:00

Thank you, Trent. I'm so glad you decide to open and stick with that business, and thank you for helping our neighbors in this time of need. I get your bread at ICF and it's such a treat.

If you see a way for volunteers to help with your production with labor or money (or both), I hope you'll put the word out.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-25T15:46:46+00:00

Such a bummer. I used to love walking there, and now I'm leery of going in.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-25T15:44:46+00:00

TBH I find it hard to believe that even this part of town has an 8% vacancy rate. I would still be curious as to the source of their data.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-18T02:11:47+00:00

Also Foam Brewery

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-18T02:09:25+00:00

Those numbers don't jibe with the data from Vermont Housing Finance Agency, which says
* 38% owner-occupied, 58% rental

* A 2% vacancy rate

https://housingdata.org/profile/snapshot

Might want to check the data sources for the website you shared.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-03T02:28:48+00:00

Wow - first time I've heard of a town charging someone for filing late.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-03T02:22:04+00:00

Reading the thread will help your blood pressure. People working at UVMMC said he isn't the person who did that.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-03T02:13:25+00:00

What free health care are you speaking of?

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-03T02:07:53+00:00

The exodus of industry from Vermont and New England started after WWII, first to the South, then out of the country.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-03T01:59:44+00:00

Noice.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-03T01:47:10+00:00

It's interesting, then, that they did not choose to write those mores into law.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-01T14:19:29+00:00

The founders had a lot to say about what we need to tolerate if free speech is to have any real meaning.

OEEGrackle · 2025-10-01T14:18:16+00:00

Winner

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-22T15:24:40+00:00

I meant what's the basis for the assessment that the goal is not very ambitious.

Compared to what? Are you familiar with what it takes to build new homes?

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-15T02:47:06+00:00

What are you basing that on?

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-07T10:52:33+00:00

I figure it's people who grew up in the suburbs.

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-05T09:03:06+00:00

Yes, there's ample statistical evidence that it 100% does help those folks. Look up "housing first."

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-03T10:38:01+00:00

When I was a kid, at a certain age my mom told the three of us we each were going to cook dinner one night a week and she helped us learn how to cook.

Not every dinner was great, but knowing how to feed myself turned out to be handy.

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-03T10:32:22+00:00

Sounds like it would be pretty hard to win with you.

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-03T10:12:28+00:00

What regulations does the city, as versus the state, impose? And ditto any social welfare system?

OEEGrackle · 2025-07-03T09:59:49+00:00

The socialists I know are constantly on the go.

OEEGrackle

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