Dear Editor, We know Vermont has a housing problem; affordability and availability are both major issues here. I moved here during Covid-19 not to get away from a city but because my family lived here. I wanted to be a part of my grandchildren’s lives, so here I am.  I want to rebut someth ing a previous letter to VTDigger raised, saying newcomers to Vermont paid “obscene prices” for housing and ruined it for everyone else in the state. May I ask who set the prices for the homes sold during that period? It was the sellers who wanted to get the most they could for their homes, a fair and typical move when selling.  READ MORE I am a bit fed up with hearing that anyone who moved here caused the housing shortage. It had been coming for a long time. There was already a housing shortage before Covid-19. Yes, people moving here during the pandemic may have added to the shortage, but we are not the only reason and certainly not the main one.  Christine Grant Burlington, Vt. Read the story on VTDigger here: Don’t blame incomers for Vermont’s housing woes. ...read more read less