Hellrazor32 t1_j7rt9m0 wrote on February 8, 2023 at 11:16 PM

Reply to comment by GreenPL8 in How Can We The Increase Affordable Housing Supply? Ideas? by twentiesforever

I mean, yeah actually I do think that people who buy homes where they’re born deserve homes in that state at an incentivized rate, or be given first refusal on property. If it’s cheaper to go to college in-state, why shouldn’t it be cheaper to buy a home in-state? It’s really incredibly sad to me that so many of us are priced out of the counties we grew up in.

Vermont has the 2nd highest homeless population per capita after California, where they’ve declared it a state of emergency. Something’s gotta give. Homes gotta get built!

Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_j7sf75o wrote on February 9, 2023 at 1:53 AM

That's the difference. In California it's big news all the time. Obviously they have a ton of unhoused people and that forces the issue but California is taking real steps, like penalizing towns that don't build affordable housing, that VT will never take. Just like back in the day when stowe went nuts over the education spending law, wealthy VT will never build for real people.