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. READ MORE
Leaders from the newly-formed Manchester Housing Alliance Land Trust (MHALT) will hold an educational session from 5:30-7 p.m. at Bookery Manchester on Thursday, May 18. READ MORE
Project synthesizes all of the state’s zoning ordinances and highlights barriers to developing housing in New Hampshire. READ MORE
Over the weekend a group of about 30 people, many of whom have been living homeless in the city for well over a year, returned to a nomadic existence. They were moved several times by police who have been citing them for various violations of city ordinances that address sidewalk encumbrances and public/private property. READ MORE
This month, a new annual report laid bare exactly how prohibitive. The 245-page analysis by New Hampshire Housing, the state’s housing authority, delivers a clear message. New Hampshire needs far more housing units than previously indicated, and the current rate of development is not going to cut it. READ MORE
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. READ MORE
Addressing Gov. Chris Sununu’s budget director, officials with DHHS argued that the state had been underfunding the shelters in the state for years. Currently, the state allocates just under $5 million in state funds per year; the department asked Sununu to fund them at $12 million per year in his next proposed budget. READ MORE
The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) approved a two-month extension to the closing date of the temporary emergency shelter on Beech Street, putting the current closure date on June 30. The BMA also approved the creation of a new department that will oversee the shelter to be known as the Department of Housing Stability, originally intended to be known as the Department of Homeless Initiatives. READ MORE
Around 1,000 people currently housed in motels and hotels across the state amid the ongoing housing crunch are desperate to find affordable housing now that the funding covering their rooms is ending. READ MORE
Two women, housed for months in area hotels at the government’s expense, are desperately looking for places to live now that the NH Emergency Rental Assistance funding is ending. READ MORE
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