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Lawmakers consider using late-year VHCB funds to jump-start supportive housing for people with developmental disabilities
Summary
Witnesses told the House Committee on General Housing that modest, repurposed VHCB shelter funds could advance one or two permanent supportive housing projects for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and proposed adding advisory-council language to guide expenditure decisions.
Kristen Murphy, executive director of the Hmong Developmental Disabilities Council, told the House Committee on General Housing on April 8 that the Road Home planning group estimated roughly 600 units of permanent supportive housing for people receiving developmental disability services would require about $5 million to $10 million per year over five years to make meaningful progress.
Murphy said the legislature had originally sought to direct $3 million through the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) but that a technical obstacle prevented that funding source from being secured before crossover. She asked the committee to consider corrective language in S.328 so VHCB could use an unspent 2024 shelter appropriation for a different type of service-supported housing for this population.
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