Vermont’s childcare shortage is really a housing problem

This commentary is by Erin Roche, who is the director of First Children’s Finance Vermont. She works with childcare businesses statewide on planning, financing and expansion.Housing is on everyone’s minds these days: how to build more of it, and how to make it affordable for more families. There are many ideas to increase funding and reduce regulations to make it more attractive for developers to build in Vermont. But housing is also directly connected to another challenge: access t