Make Me Smart: Vermont Edition
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, we’re taking a trip to the Green Mountain State for an up close look at one of Vermont’s most pressing economic issues: housing. Kimberly is joined by Carly Berlin, housing reporter for VTDigger and Vermont Public, to talk about the factors driving Vermont’s housing crisis and how solutions, like a catalog of pre-approved home designs, could help fix it. Plus, are you more of a Vermont cheddar or a Ben & Jerry’s type of person?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- "Vermont Housing Needs Assessment" from the State of Vermont
- "Vermont is overhauling Act 250. Here’s what the development maps look like so far" from Vermont Public
- "Vermont develops catalog of prevetted home designs for faster building" from VTDigger
- "Green Mountain Grub: The Best Things to Eat in Vermont" from Food Network
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you for joining us, whether you're watching the YouTube live stream or listening to the podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Economics on Tap, our weekly happy hour episode. Today, we are joining you live from |
| 0:28.4 | Burlington, Vermont, and joining me to tell me about all things. Vermont is Carly Berlin, |
| 0:34.4 | a housing reporter for VT Digger and Vermont Public. Welcome to the show, Carly. |
| 0:39.8 | Hey, Kimberly. And tell us where we are. We are at Zero Gravity Brewery in Burlington. |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, and what are we doing here? We are drinking some fine beverages. What do you have there? |
| 0:51.9 | I have a Green State Lager. Why do you call it a green state logger? |
| 0:55.4 | We're in the Green Mountain State. |
| 0:57.4 | This is my go-to beer here. |
| 0:59.4 | Let's see what everybody is drinking in the chat. |
| 1:01.9 | Oh, I should say, I am having a mom's Manhattan, which is their twist on a Manhattan |
| 1:07.1 | here. |
| 1:07.8 | And Jeff here, the owner was telling me that it's because during the pandemic, |
| 1:11.9 | moms needed Manhattan's. So, cheers. Cheers. |
| 1:18.0 | All right. It looks like Marty Ackerman is having a Kirkland sparkling water, nice and healthy and |
| 1:24.2 | refreshing. I love that for you. Allison is drinking fresh, squeezed, grapefruit juice, |
| 1:29.4 | cranberry juice, and sparkling water. |
| 1:31.9 | Oh, that's a good combo there. |
| 1:33.8 | It's refreshing. |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah. |
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