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During their April 2026 meeting, the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) denied a set of variance requests for a proposed housing complex at the end of Woodland Avenue, a street immediately to the west of the Hannaford Plaza on Hanover Street.
“Affordable” housing means different things to different people. There’s the official designation, which can be a hot button when it’s proposed for a neighborhood. There’s the mortgage lender’s definition when they’re considering your application. Then there’s the very specific definition when you sit down and crunch your numbers.
his week, NHFPI released a new analysis of New Hampshire’s housing market, highlighting how high prices, limited supply, and rising rents continue to challenge affordability. While price growth has slowed in some areas, housing costs still outpace incomes, limiting options for renters and prospective homebuyers statewide. Below are three key takeaways.
A bill that addresses one of the biggest barriers to developing housing in New Hampshire that passed the House earlier this month breezed through a Senate Commerce Committee public hearing Tuesday.
New Hampshire’s housing crisis has sent prices skyrocketing and made it tough to find the right home, but there’s one statistic the state can take pride in – it has the lowest “zombie” vacancy rate in the nation.
New Hampshire’s new year began with slightly better single-family home sales numbers than 2025, but with a much higher median January sales price.
Ending Housing Champions would pull support from communities that have already done the work and planned projects around it. It would slow housing. It would raise costs. It would break trust between the state and local governments.
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.
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
Manchester Neighbors Welcome, a coalition effort convened by 603 Forward and the New Hampshire Youth Movement, pointed to the success of At-Large Aldermanic Candidate June Trisciani and Ward 1 Aldermanic Candidate Bryce Kaw-uh as examples of how important the issue of housing is for Manchester voters.
New Hampshire’s economy has been moving beyond the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of the changes appear to be here to stay.
As I prepared to move to Manchester to teach economics at Saint Anselm College, I was unaware of the extent of New Hampshire’s housing shortage. Despite having a job with a solid income, securing an apartment felt like winning a lottery. My husband and I scrambled to put down a deposit on a place within minutes of being notified and still, we lost out. Eventually, we got lucky. But that luck, and the ability to buy a condo later, was a privilege many don’t have.
The Planning Board will meet on Thursday, June 5 at 6 p.m.
Earlier this month, developers seeking to construct a seven-story, 51-unit multi-family mixed-use building at 1308 Elm St., the current location of the North End Superette, were granted variances from the city’s zoning ordinances from the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment for minimum buildable lot area and infringement on the required visual clearance area on a corner lot within the city’s Central Business District.
The Planning Board will meet on Thursday, May 15 at 6 p.m.