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Related: About this forumLawmakers stare down Covid-19, housing shortage, pension crisis and more as legislative session
Lawmakers stare down Covid-19, housing shortage, pension crisis and more as legislative session approachesCovid-19, Town Meeting Day, housing, pensions, labor shortages and a constitutional amendment. These are the top priorities Vermonts legislative leaders say they want to tackle when lawmakers return to Montpelier (or to their webcams) in January.
Covid-19
As it has been for nearly two years, Covid-19 remains at the forefront of everyones minds, especially as the Omicron variant drives a furious surge of cases across the country. The highly contagious variant could drive lawmakers to their third consecutive remote session, but regardless of whether they meet in Montpelier or online, the pressure is on to help relieve the pressure being felt by the health care system and all Vermonters.
Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, D-Windham, told VTDigger in an interview this week that legislators plan to vote on a statewide mask mandate for public indoor spaces. But shes pessimistic about it becoming law, with Republican Gov. Phil Scott pledging several times to veto such a bill, and the Legislature, by Balints count, not having the votes to override Scotts veto.
House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, told VTDigger in a separate interview that a mask mandate would be only one piece of the puzzle and that there are other tools with which to address this latest wave of the virus.
Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2021/12/24/lawmakers-stare-down-covid-19-housing-shortage-pension-crisis-and-more-as-legislative-session-approaches/
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Lawmakers stare down Covid-19, housing shortage, pension crisis and more as legislative session (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Dec 2021
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Yes, so if those forming new households are leaving, why is there a housing shortage? /nt
bucolic_frolic
Dec 2021
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bucolic_frolic
(46,971 posts)1. Some things don't make sense
Housing shortage during a time of covid deaths, and in a state that's practically begged people to move there for years because of people leaving the state. What gives?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. Young fold don't stay
Last edited Sun Dec 26, 2021, 05:55 PM - Edit history (1)
bucolic_frolic
(46,971 posts)3. Yes, so if those forming new households are leaving, why is there a housing shortage? /nt