Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
I knew a guy who returned from an overseas deployment to find squatters in his house. It took something like five months to get rid of them.
That happened to us. But it was only one squatter (in my MIL's house that we were getting our renters to vacate so we could sell), and she was a substance abuser. Her social worker told us not to let us in. She changed the locks. The police told us to get off our property. It took 4 months and we lost the best of the selling season, so that was an added expense to be sure.

But underneath these anecdotes about the homeless is a bigger systemic issue. My great-grandfather died in an "asylum" because he just didn't fit into mainstream society--do we go back to that model?

Edited to add: This is what Burllington's partial solution is. Pods that are located on the block between one of my son's house and the other. I haven't asked them lately what they think of it. Sounds like it's kind of working but with problems to iron out.

https://vtdigger.org/2024/02/04/one-...ods-a-success/