Carly Berlin
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And tell us where we are.
We are at Zero Gravity Brewery in Burlington.
Okay, and what are we doing here?
We are drinking some fine beverages.
What do you have there?
I have a Green State Lager.
Why do you call it a Green State Lager?
We're in the Green Mountain State.
Yeah, we're in Burlington.
We're in the largest city in the state of Vermont, which is not saying a whole lot.
It's about 44,000 people.
And you've been staying out in the country in a small town on a ski vacation.
Not quite a vacation.
I was trying to work through.
They're not great.
There obviously is a housing shortage and affordability issues around housing across the country right now, and we are no stranger to that in Vermont.
And the situation is particularly acute here.
We have one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country.
We consistently rank up there with
New York, California, Washington, Oregon, those states that you think about as having some of the largest homeless populations in the country.