Once the majority of the construction materials are removed, demolition will begin on the lower levels of the old police station.
Construction of a large building with affordable housing at 351 Chestnut Street should begin later this year and is tentatively scheduled to be completed in 2026.
Proponents of Senate Bill 538, known as the “HOMEnibus,” argued it would help dislodge barriers to housing development and give cities and towns new tools to increase housing units.
We never thought we’d have to fight to keep the right to live in a single-family neighborhood in our beloved New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire Judicial Branch on March 27 released a comprehensive report produced as a result of the recent Sequential Intercept Mapping or SIM workshop that took place at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, focusing on the Hillsborough County North region.
Lisa Morales of Keene finally received her housing voucher after 18 months of waiting — a relatively short time compared to the sometimes years-long process others face in obtaining one. Waiting was not the main issue she encountered, however — finding a landlord who would accept her voucher remains her bigger worry.
Mayor Jay Ruais and Keene Mayor Jay Kahn along with 9 other city mayors announced the joint issuance of a letter to Sen. Regina Birdsell, Republican representing District, 19 and chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, in support of SB 406, legislation relative to funding for emergency housing assistance.
New Hampshire Housing’s 2024 Homeownership Conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, at the Grappone Center, 70 Constitution Ave.
There is NO way this bill will get a fair hearing. This kind of manipulation (forming special taxpayer-funded lobbying groups and committees) is typical of Sununu and his developer cronies after they fail to pass unsavory bills the normal way.
A five-part webinar series launching Feb. 15 and running consecutive Thursdays through March 14 will examine the background and solutions to New Hampshire’s housing crisis.
The call for zoning changes to ease the housing crisis is supported by a recent Zillow study that shows a growing gap between the number of households and families that do not rent or own their own home, particularly among those with low incomes.
Findings from a Saint Anselm Center for Ethics in Society discussion among stakeholders and experts found barriers to the critical step in addiction recovery are wide-ranging.
By 2040, 88,400 new housing units will be needed, with 30,000 of them rental units. To accomplish this, the state needs to increase building permits by 36 percent statewide. (From 2017 to 2021, about 4,000 building permits were issued per year.) “The only plausible way that this could be achieved is through a combination of local and state action,” the study said.
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A year after the Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP) began its weekly tenant clinic, about 250 families have been helped through the eviction process and in obtaining New Hampshire Emergency Rental Assistance Program (NHERAP) funds to stay in their apartments.
The pandemic and hot New Hampshire real estate market has disproportionately affected the state’s very low income who are being ousted from their homes by current landlords citing the need to renovate the aged housing stock.
Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday his $100 million plan to expand the state’s housing supply would aid businesses looking to add employees, such as MilliporeSigma, which operates a plant in Jaffrey that makes products used in the medical industry.
The survey will help identify barriers and create areas of focus that will direct the action that the Manchester Housing Alliance will take in the near future.
The Governor’s plan, which he announced in conjunction with Democrats on October 30 of this year, is shored up by two LSRs (HB 1629 and HB 1632). One bill would make zoning for low-income or high-density housing mandatory while forcing zoning and planning boards to accept training in the philosophy of “new urbanism” — an internationally-bred fad that has invaded the country. The other bill would give more tax breaks to developers for building specific types of projects.
