Meet the Candidates Who've Endorsed Our 2026 Platform
This year, instead of surveying candidates, we launched our first-ever policy platform and invited candidates across the region to endorse it. Here's who said yes.
Feb 26, 2026 Read MoreBlog
VPOP is a grassroots and volunteer run organization. While we occasionally come together to organize an event or endorse a policy as a full collective, most of the time we are just a group of individuals sharing our perspectives and learning from each other.
This blog is a space for VPOP members to share those perspectives with the broader community, along with the occasional news post from "VPOP" itself. The posts here should be read as a look into the many different people, experiences, and ideas that live within VPOP, and not as an explicit, universally adopted platform of VPOP (unless otherwise noted).
Blog Posts
Pennies for Public Transit
Pennies for Public Transit is a citizen-led, grassroots advocacy campaign to secure stop-gap funding that will keep Vermont's public transit systems running for the next two to three years while the Legislature works toward a permanent solution.
Feb 14, 2026 Read MoreNeighborhood Code 2024 Update
For the past several months, members of VPOP have been hard at work following along and engaging with the Burlington Neighborhood Code process.
Feb 21, 2024 Read MoreAn Update on the HOME Bill (S.100)
Vermont joins a small, but growing number of states that have taken the necessary step of eliminating single-family zoning state-wide.
Jun 22, 2023 Read MoreGender, Bike Lanes, and Questioning the Binary
An exploration of how bike infrastructure intersects with gender equity and urban design principles.
May 31, 2023 Read More