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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — As his few remaining hours with a place to live ticked by last Thursday, Scott Alexander panhandled near a McDonald’s in Brattleboro, in southern Vermont, while running through a mental checklist of the supplies he would need for a move back into the woods nearby. He had a tent and sleeping bags for himself and his wife, a propane stove and a heater. But he needed tarps and propane, and in two hours of holding his battered cardboard sign — “Any Act ...

One set of hotels is asking tenants to sign away their rights to the cash in exchange for $500 — a move that Mark Hengster, an attorney at a nonprofit that represents low-income Vermonters in civil matters, said is clearly in violation of state rules.

The entire program cost the state nearly $200 million.

A deadline is looming for people living in emergency hotel rooms around Vermont.

Vermont is ending the last of its COVID-era hotel housing for homeless people in the coming weeks due to a lack of federal funding.

BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — Brittany Plucas, 29, and her boyfriend will likely sleep in her car when they have to leave the Hilltop Inn on the first of June. The

Vermont is set to end the last of the COVID-era housing for homeless people in the upcoming weeks. The program is ending due to a lack of federal funding.

Advocates warn that people have nowhere to go and no public safety net.

As federal money has dried up, Vermont is ending the last of its COVID-era hotel housing for homeless people.

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