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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 of Kind Greatly Appreciate”

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.