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BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Board of Health will decide if an emergency health order on RVs used for emergency housing at a Washington Street property should stand.

BRATTLEBORO — With an influx of people no longer qualifying for emergency housing at motels through a state program, some are asking where they should go.

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 of Kind Greatly Appreciate”

“It’s disheartening that you could almost use the same quotes I had from 10 years ago about what’s going on right now,” one advocate said this month while reflecting back on a continuing lack of enough shelter space. “We collectively haven’t made much progress.”

Sitting on a curb behind the Colchester Quality Inn on Thursday and surrounded by all of her belongings packed into grocery bags, Rebecca Bussard was crying. Her phone in her hand, she said she had been on hold for an hour and 20 minutes, waiting for...