Posts by Michaela Towfighi
Estimates help quantify the housing crisis. New Hampshire Housing predicts a need to build 60,000 units by 2030 and 90,000 units by 2040. Median home prices continue to exceed $500,000, while rental vacancy rates remain below 1 percent.
“Bed bugs spread worse than a forest fire and they are harder to kill than cockroaches with how they reproduce,” he said. “It’s insane.”
Twice a day the fire department can expect a call relating to homelessness in some way, whether it’s a fire at an encampment that needs to be extinguished; the river flooded with high rains and campers are stuck on the banks, or a medical emergency requires the departments’ attention
A bill that would ease New Hampshire’s eviction process will now head to the Senate after House members passed the measure 194 to 180 on Thursday.
Art Ellison isn’t one to mince words. With a red blanket over his lap and a “support public education” t-shirt on, he has one final request as he rests at the Granite VNA hospice house. “Feed the damn kids,” he said.
When the Legislature reconvened in January, the new session was met with a record number of housing bills. But Elissa Margolin is holding off on crowning this session as the “year of housing” – until she sees what policy makes it to the governor’s desk.
As New Hampshire looks ahead to a race for the corner office in 2024, both Democrats vying for the party nomination hope that this issue of abortion will be a driving factor of their campaigns.
With nearly 500 people experiencing homelessness across Merrimack County, agencies like the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness are taking different approaches to solving the problem. These efforts aren’t always quick or even effective in a tight real estate market, as the number of people who have been unhoused for more than a year remains steady.
After touring the facility – where children have rug burns on their face from the use of prone restraints – Cassandra Sanchez, the New Hampshire child advocate has a few requests.
It’s the only youth detention center in the state and Rocha serves as director. In a large building on a sprawling 150-acre campus, the Sununu Center or YDC, as it used to be known, houses New Hampshire youth aged 13 to 17 who are involuntarily detained. Some face serious criminal charges.