Welcome back to our Housing Matters Newsletter! It’s been great to see so many of you across the state at conferences, presentations, and breakfast events over the past few weeks. As the event season and state legislative action heat…
Saint Anselm College poll finds nearly three in four voters support smaller lot single family homes MANCHESTER– Today, Saint Anselm College’s Initiative for Housing Policy and Practice released its annual statewide survey of voter attitudes toward…
Welcome to a summer edition of our Housing Matters Newsletter! It’s been a few weeks since we’ve been in your inbox, and A LOT has happened. The Governor acted on all the housing bills that passed this legislative session and,…
CONCORD, NH — Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB 1010 and HB 1588 into law. As adopted by the House and Senate, these bipartisan bills make technical improvements to last year’s residential-in-commercial-zones law (HB 631). This…
CONCORD, NH — Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte vetoed HB 1336. This legislation would have allowed landlords to require certain prospective tenants to pay an additional month of rent up front as a second security deposit. Under current law,…
Legislation Would Increase Rental Costs Amidst Housing Affordability Crisis CONCORD–Today, over 40 organizations ranging from shelters and service providers to organizations representing aging populations, victims of domestic violence, and veterans signed a joint…
CONCORD, NH — During the 2026 Legislative session, nearly 100 housing-related proposals were reviewed and voted on by the New Hampshire House and Senate. This memo outlines the legislative themes Housing Action NH tracked and the results of…
Welcome back to our weekly newsletter! Thursday at 4 pm, the deadline passed for the committees of conference to agree on compromise legislative language. If the committee members did not reach an agreement (or did not sign the agreement), the…
Welcome back to our weekly newsletter! Yesterday, May 21st, marked the deadline for the New Hampshire Legislature to form Committees of Conference. As we’ve written about before, Committees of Conference occur when the House and Senate pass different versions of…
Welcome back to our weekly newsletter! Yesterday marked a key deadline at the New Hampshire State House. It was the last day for the House to act on all remaining Senate bills and the Senate to act on all remaining…