Vermont doesn’t have a housing shortage. It has a hoarding problem.

Dear Editor,I’m responding to Mickey Nowak’s recent letter to VTDigger, which in turn was a response to a commentary by John Bossange.There was a time when housing was both affordable and aesthetically appealing. People gathered to build a structure in town, whether it be a town hall, church, covered bridge or house or barn for their neighbor, and despite primitive carpentry skills and lack of fancy tools, built some of Vermont’s most iconic structures that still stand proudly