...we need housing, not hotels.
This is a horrifying example of police overreach and covering their own butts to the detriment of the populace.
As a Burlingtonite who can barely make ends meet and afford to live where I am from, I find this whole program a horrifying and tone-deaf misuse of our tax dollars.
This event is now located at Deli/126 instead of Drink Bar!
Is anyone from 7Days going to bother to talk to people actually impacted by gentrification in the ONE? How about looking at declining rates of Section 8 housing (% of units given to Section 8 vouchers in even 2010 vs now) and asking how people like Bisonnettes, who admitted as much to the Claytons, are getting away with intentionally moving poor people out to St. A, Milton, etc in order to charge as much as possible for their units?
Re: “Snail's Pace: Mail Delivery Lags in South Burlington Neighborhood”
"If they are short staffed, it would be nice if our neighborhood wasn't the one that was suffering," she said.
As though they're the only neighborhood being impacted? This has been happening in the Old North End for the last year or two AT LEAST and I was told to only expect mail delivery every other day due to understaffing (which tbh wouldn't be a problem if they stopped testing for cannabis). But I guess it only matters when it's people with money /who own property?