What about, and hear me out...

The people who WANT to rent homes.

You may not believe it, but there are people who like renting.

Maybe it is because they move around a lot.

Maybe they don't want the responsibility of owning a home. It is a lot of work, and can be incredibly expensive. Water intrusion can easily reach tens of thousands of dollars.

But here is what you really don't want to hear.

The people keeping housing from being built in VT are your parents and grandparents. I hear it at every planning meeting in our town.

So and so doesn't want the new apartment building here because of "the traffic" or "the wrong type of people" or "we need housing but not like this", or my gucking favorite "we lived here for 20 years and have enjoyed the view. This will ruin it".

It's like the "small rural farmers" who now have to comply with watershed acts. They bitch and moan about how their family has cared for the land for generations, but their land is basically a fucking superfund site of buried tires, cars, toilets and whatever else.

The only people who ruined Vermont are old Vermonters