homelessness
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Living Together: Don’t stereotype the homeless
Houseless or unhoused gives no respect for the experience or depth of pain of someone who lacks a stable, safe place to live. Homelessness was painful.
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Living Together: Poverty causes trauma in children
In my decades of work with disadvantaged Vermonters, I have seen assistance programs come and go, and funding commitments rise and fall, dependent on the economy, political administrations,…
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‘Just Getting By’ makes a stop in Middlebury
On Saturday, March 30, come to Town Hall Theater in Middlebury to see Bess O’Brien’s new documentary “Just Getting By.” This film is a sweeping, and yet intimate…
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Living Together: Figure it out, whatever it takes
While there’s apt to be more than one right answer, I was taught that a crisis, fundamentally, is a critical situation in which the demands exceed the resources…
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Letter to the editor: Nonprofits are better at keeping people housed
If you have spent any amount of time in the “affordable housing” rabbit hole, you are aware that research over the last 50 years has shown that nonprofit…
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Living Together: More housing is key to our future
In the spirit of the Living Together series, we cannot live together unless there are homes for people to live in.
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Living Together: It takes many to help those in need
Twenty years ago — March 26, 2004 — members of the Congregational Church of Middlebury cooked and served the first Friday Night Community Supper.
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Living Together: It takes many to aid the unhoused
Each day in the news, tales of woe involving people who are unhoused can be found. The message is loud. Disguised in intellectual words and politically correct terms;…
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Community Forum: Actionable steps for mental health
Our community faces a multifaceted crisis where these issues not only strain our resources but also impact the safety and well-being of our most vulnerable residents.
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Living Together: Economics tough for unhoused
It’s a common misconception that unhoused people are not working. The truth is quite the opposite; 85% of the families served by John Graham Housing and Services have…
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Letter to the editor: Mental health piece off base
As the Emergency Services Coordinator at Counseling Service of Addison County, I read Chris Mason’s article ‘New Mental Health Strategy Needed’ from last week’s paper with concern and…
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Living Together: New mental health strategy needed
There is a burgeoning housing crisis in Vermont, as evidenced in our state’s shockingly high rate of unhoused, and even more shocking increase in that rate — an…
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Living Together: Unhoused in need of ‘safe places’
My story is not unique, and the isolation and hopeless feelings of active addiction are not unique. Finding a place to belong was an essential first step in…
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Middlebury unhoused camp numbers ebb
The small contingent of houseless campers under Middlebury’s Cross Street Bridge and along the Otter Creek further downstream has at least temporarily left the downtown area in favor…
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Living Together: Solving the homelessness crisis
While the comfortably housed segment of our communities might consider homelessness to be a blight on society, to the unhoused and housing insecure members of our community, homelessness…
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Top Ten 2023: Once again, housing is scarce
A lack of available housing created a lot of problems in 2023, not only for folks trying to settle in Addison County, but for various businesses and institutions…