Vermont’s housing crisis isn’t one problem: it’s three

This commentary is by Bryan Sell, who teaches in Vermont State University’s Resort and Hospitality Management program. Vermont’s housing debate is mostly treated as a problem of not enough units, with capitalist bogeymen feasting on the stock — outsiders hoarding homes, or investors gouging rents. These arguments resurrect Vermont’s old flatlander/woodchuck divide, sometimes said out loud in public forums. But look closer, and the conflict splits again: workers dema