Report: Average Vermont Wages Lag Well Behind What Renters Need

SEVEN DAYS VERMONT: This article on housing affordability and wages in Vermont quotes Abt’s Jeffrey Lubell, principal associate and director of housing and community initiatives. Between insufficient earnings and a lack of affordable inventory, people are struggling to find homes they can afford, even as a moratorium on evictions is expiring. “I can tell you that housing is at a crisis point in most of the United States,” Lubell says of the challenges facing most renters. “The problem has been getting substantially worse over the last 20 years.”