Sitting on a curb behind the Colchester Quality Inn on Thursday and surrounded by all of her belongings packed into grocery bags, Rebecca Bussard was crying. Her phone in her hand, she said she had been on hold for an hour and 20 minutes, waiting for.
Thursday marked the first of several waves of evictions planned for this spring and summer, as the state winds down pandemic-era programs that have sheltered an estimated 80% of Vermont’s unhoused population in motels.