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Nicholas Joseph

If you are in the hotel program, don’t leave. And don’t take the money.

If you are in the hotel program, don’t leave. And don’t take the money.

If we refuse to leave until we have safe, secure, permanent housing solutions, we can force the issue to end homelessness in Vermont now, as opposed to watching the housing crisis continue to kill our friends and neighbors.

Today - June 14, 2021 - began for me with a conversation about the ending of the hotel program that has housed Vermonters experiencing homelessness through the pandemic.

For us, there has been a sense that this is not for us, but rather to protect people who have homes and are able to hold down gainful employment. That this program was a way to ensure that “working families” didn't have to risk catching Covid (or homelessness) from Vermont's most vulnerable neighbors.

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