Statement on Sears Lane and Encampments for People Experiencing Homelessness
CVOEO opposes the forced removal of encampments where individuals and families experiencing homelessness live.
News, Press & Perspectives
Because of the housing safety veto, people are at risk
This commentary by Paul Dragon was published in VT Digger on 10/24/21. The Housing Safety Bill (S.79) would have made much-needed changes in how health and safety is enforced in rental housing by shifting health inspections from mostly volunteer, town-based town health officers to the State Division of Fire Safety.
Saint Albans organization hopes the country moves forward on re-authorizing Violence Against Women Act
Watch the story on my champlainvalley.com.
Policies should recognize poverty-environment linkage
The work connecting poverty relief to environmental justice is undeveloped and nearly nonexistent. We need a new paradigm in our traditional anti-poverty and social service thinking to include a focus on the environment, and environmental organizations need to include people living in poverty as they develop their thinking and practice.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
These past months of the pandemic have driven home the point that we can and need to do much better as a society for people who are homeless and living in deep poverty. We realize that the people who work in shelters and emergency housing facilities play a vital role in medical prevention, medical care and public health, but this is something that the medical community and most of society by and large neglect to acknowledge.
It is time to vaccinate people experiencing homelessness
People experiencing homelessness are much more likely than the general population to have chronic medical conditions along with mental health and substance use conditions.
The No Cause Eviction Law is an Unjust Law
No-cause eviction is particularly worrisome for children and older Vermonters as well as people of color. According to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, people of color have less access to safe and secure housing than their white counterparts.