🧑Mid 20s Other Gendered PersoninWard 3
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I would like for there to be more affordable housing in Burlington
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Burlington, VT · Live ReportIssue Focus · November 2026 edition
Housing
Raised by57%4 responses · past 15 days
Top Themes
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#1 Theme
Homes and rents are out of reach
Rent and home costs are putting Burlington housing out of reach, including for people without homes.
👨Mid 30s Man
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I know rent is so expensive in Burlington. But I also know it’s so expensive everywhere else in the country, and even the world. so I would love to see us think about how we address this problem given that it’s really a national and even a global
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👨Early 30s ManinWard 7
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Improve homeless housing
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👩Early 20s Woman
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I know this is repetitive but buying a house is feeling increasingly out of reach and like an irresponsible idea. I want to stay in Burlington but feel uncertain about the likelihood that that will be possible. I am seeing gentrification take place and “affordable” housing developments underway that are not truly affordable.
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More voices on housing
A few more quotes worth reading, about topics outside the main themes above.
👴Senior Man
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The desperation of people living out of carts and bags is disturbing and saddening.
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👨Mid 30s Man
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I know that there’s always gonna be businesses turning over, but I worry that there’s gonna be more and more vacant storefronts, and that the way the economy is going it’s making it really hard to start a business or sustain a business. Because it’s hard for people to afford rent and it’s hard for people to have money to spend at a businesses.
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Resident Ideas
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Join other cities on housing solutions
👨Mid 30s Man
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Could we have coalitions across multiple cities or even states that allow us to work together to try to solve this problem at the wider scale that is really the scale that it’s happening? Of course, the federal government should do more, but we obviously can’t rely on them.
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