MONTEPLIER, Vt. (WCAX) – Money is on the way to replace mobile homes and help businesses destroyed by flooding.
Governor Phil Scott Friday said Vermont’s Emergency Board approved $7 million in state money for the Business Emergency Gap Assistance Program to provide help to businesses, farms, and nonprofits hit by flooding this year.
Another $7 million will be used to buy mobile homes for people who lost them in flooding last summer.
Officials say around 60 mobile homes were destroyed in 2023, eliminating two mobile home communities. The funding is expected to provide upwards of 30 mobile homes by the end of the year.
The governor says the money could add 30 mobile homes this year and as many as 100 next year.