The state is doing a better job of getting closer – though not reaching – its housing goals, with only a fraction of the state’s municipalities responsible for housing growth, according to the annual housing supply report for the state released Tuesday.
New Hampshire’s housing market showed signs of improvement overall in 2025, with several key indicators increasing for the time in several years.
“I’m the mayor of the state’s largest city, and I’ve effectively been priced out of my own city,” Ruais said. “I could not make that same purchase today. That is not a long term recipe for success for the city of Manchester, for the state of New Hampshire.”
The housing market in New Hampshire continues to loosen up a little, a trend that’s been consistent for the last few months, but it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the cost of buying a home.
A coalition created in 2020 to tackle the state’s housing crisis is embarking on its next phase, a three-year roadmap to continue work that over the past four years “made significant progress toward its mission.”
It’s easy to say that people just need to make better choices. But the truth is, even people who are working full time or holding down two jobs, budgeting carefully and saving where they can are struggling to afford the basics. And it’s not because of lattes. It’s because of math.
One of the toughest nuts to crack in the struggle to increase affordable housing in New Hampshire is access to water and sewer infrastructure that would allow more density. Understanding where that that infrastructure is and how it interacts with zoning just got easier with the latest addition to the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas.
The biggest reaction of the day was sustained applause after Somersworth Mayor Matt Gerding said, “I was very disappointed the state of New Hampshire cut funding for housing programs in the budget. It’s critical to what we’re doing, and I was shocked the state did it in the middle of a housing crisis.
A majority of New Hampshire voters think their community needs more affordable housing, and are in favor of changing land use regulations to do it, according to a new survey.
One key issue federal budget issue that has yet to be resolved are possible cuts that would severely reduce or eliminate programs that awarded millions to New Hampshire last year to help ease the housing crisis and homelessness