a crisis, and it's getting worse. A housing task force blames a combination of causes, including the escalating cost of housing -- and NIMBY -- neighbors who say Not In My Back Yard.
Chittenden county continues to grow in population, but the demand for housing has grown faster. In spite of several new housing developments like Victoria's Place nearing completion in Burlington, the Chittenden County Housing Task Force concludes the county's current shortfall of housing is almost two-thousand units, and that the gap will grow to five thousand by the year 2010 if the pace of new housing construction doesn't pick up.
Housing Task Force chairman Mark Lords summed it up: "In the last year it's only gotten worse." Lords is a housing builder with the Snyder group. He says the demand for housing is greater than ever, that not even two rounds of layoffs at IBM have eased the housing crunch.
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