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TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts)
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 04:05 PM Jul 2020

After Covid-19 crisis, where will homeless Vermonters go?

Across the country, homeless populations have been battered by Covid-19.

Over 700 people without housing have tested positive for the disease in Boston. Similar outbreaks among homeless Americans have taken hold in cities like Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Philadelphia.

In Vermont, only one person experiencing homelessness tested positive for Covid-19. No one has died.

That’s because Vermont temporarily solved homelessness in a matter of weeks when the pandemic broke out. Every Vermonter who lacked shelter was able to receive it through an expanded motel voucher system that was instituted to limit the spread of the virus by keeping Vermonters out of cramped group shelters.

Read more: https://www.mountaintimes.info/after-covid-19-crisis-where-will-homeless-vermonters-go/

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After Covid-19 crisis, where will homeless Vermonters go? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2020 OP
Where will they all go? Not just Vermont. onecaliberal Jul 2020 #1
Vermont has done very well so far. empedocles Jul 2020 #2
When the rent moratorium ends it will be very ugly everywhere. onecaliberal Jul 2020 #3
Proves the people I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #4

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,934 posts)
4. Proves the people
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 04:38 PM
Jul 2020

Who say they can't help the homeless are choosing not to help them. Because if there was no available housing..
Surprise they found housing and the funds to shelter them. They should stay housed.

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