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Thank God that Seven Days shows a heart for the homeless who have died unnoticed in Vermont. God notices, too. Community leaders and faith leaders, check out Community Supported Shelters https://www.communitysupportedshelters.org/ and start getting creative on how you can team to help. Their units have been tested for 5 Vermont winters and withstood. Find ways to make it easier to put up such units for around $2K and then help people get back on their feet and into something larger. Plumbing requirements need to be amended to allow porta-johns. vthope.net/microd.html
According to the VPR article, the majority of deaths of the homeless as well as many deaths of homeless people housed in motels is due to drug overdoses. Seems to me that drug use is the main problem to be solved along with concurrent mental health issues which it doesn’t get into. Hard to work for a living when you’re mentally ill and using drugs and hard to afford housing when your money goes to feed your addiction instead of rent. So perhaps instead of trying to paper over the huge crack in the crumbling plaster, it’s time to deal with the root causes of homelessness.
Even the SevenDays reported in this week’s cover article that more than 20 have died of overdoses at motels that received funds from the emergency program. Instead of the privacy and solitude afforded by a motel room, if these individuals had been staying at a supervised communal shelter where someone was available to respond, they may still be alive.