Out in the cold: Some Burlington homeless sleeping in tents

As the region experiences freezing temperatures, homeless and precariously-housed Vermonters are struggling to find safe places to spend the night.

By Matt Ryan and Joel Banner Baird. Reposted from the Burlington Free Press, January 23, 2013. “With the temperature dropping below zero Tuesday evening, Burlington social worker Stefanie Comstock made the rounds to check on people she thought would be spending the night outdoors. “I gave out a lot of hand warmers, toe warmers, the little Sterno stoves,” Comstock said Wednesday morning. “You know, made sure they had a heating source.” Comstock said at least 10 of the people she met at various campsites and the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf in Burlington spent the night in tents…” Link to Burlington Free Press Article  View PDF of Burlington Free Press Article

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