Advocates set to push just-cause eviction in Burlington

Read the article in My Champlain Valley.

Here is an excerpt:

Ryan Murphy, a housing navigator for the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, said she frequently speaks with people harmed by no-cause evictions. “Over the course of the pandemic, tenants have increasingly expressed that if they are evicted, they will have no place to go,” Murphy said. “Our state has such a significant housing shortage that termination can drive people into homelessness or out of the state entirely.”