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Shelburne town manager praises H.594 intent, warns motel-program timeline, staffing and funding may be insufficient
Summary
Shelburne town manager Matt Wallace told the House Housing and Human Services committee he supports H.594’s intent to improve motel-based responses to homelessness but cautioned the bill’s staffing ratios, two-year sunset and modest conversion funds risk setting the program up to fail without additional resources or a slower transition.
Matt Wallace, town manager for Shelburne, told the House Housing and Human Services committee on Jan. 29 that he supports the intent of H.594 to improve accountability and case management for motel-based responses to homelessness but urged changes to the timetable, staffing assumptions and funding levels.
"I commend the overall intent of your H.594, but I caution that it might move too fast with too few resources to succeed as written," Wallace said in his testimony. He described recent housing wins in Shelburne — Champlain Housing Trust's Bay Ridge project of 94 homes, a 12-unit supportive building run by Howard Center, a 12-unit market-rate building, a settled 63-home development and sewer work that enabled capacity for roughly 350 homes — as evidence…
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