Whad’ya know. The Scott administration set up four crappy homeless shelters in a two-day period of time last week. The four were meant to fit up to 500 people, if they crammed in real tight. (Click here and scroll down to see a photo of the Burlington shelter, which at least was in a relatively modern building. Just imagine what the inside of the Berlin shelter, pictured above, looks like.)

Well, I’ve received what are apparently official figures from an unofficial source, and they indicate that the four shelters housed a grand total of 10 people on Saturday night.

Ten.

That’s seven in Burlington, two in Rutland, one in the Berlin shelter (a.k.a. Winters Hall), and a big fat zero in the southeast Vermont shelter, located in a disused office building formerly occupied by Entergy Nuclear.

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