Voices for Vermont’s Children recently published a report titled “Difficult Choices: Housing for Vermont Families” that discusses how the housing crisis in Vermont affects children. The report highlights many findings such as the following:
Housing is too expensive for many of Vermont’s working families.
Vermont is consistently the least affordable state in the country when energy costs are measured as a % of household budgets.
Family and child homelessness is a growing problem in Vermont.
An estimated 2,061 children were homeless in Vermont in 2013.
Kids need healthy and stable housing to thrive.
To read the full report, click here. To read an editorial feature on the report published by the Times Argus, click here.