Resources and Reading - New Hampshire
- Communities & Consequences
Communities & Consequences is a film about the human ecology of New Hampshire. It addresses the loss of New Hampshire's young people through the human stories of people that are living out the consequences of demographic imbalance. Correspondent Peter Francese travels throughout the state to talk to business owners, town officials, young professionals and active citizens about the causes and effects of a rapidly aging state. The film confronts and questions many long held myths that have heavily influenced local development decisions, including those of explosive population growth, the aging of New Hampshire as simply a natural trend, and the belief that families with children will increase property taxes.
- Municipal Approaches to the Requirement for Workforce Housing
Benjamin Frost, Esq., AICP, Director of Public Affairs, New Hampshire Housing, Presented at the 2008 Local Government Center Law Lecture Series.
- Workforce Housing Law

Text of the New Hampshire Workforce Housing law, Chapter 299 Laws of 2008 (SB 342), with a side-by-side plain language description. (See more resources at the NH Workforce Housing Council Document Center)
- Land Use Regulations in New Hampshire

Prepared for the New Hampshire Public Policy Alliance for Housing, Home Builders and Remodelers Association of New Hampshire, and New Hampshire Housing Financing Authority by Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, P.C., January, 2007.
- A Home for Everyone: New Hampshire’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness
December 2006.
- Housing and School Enrollment in New Hampshire: An Expanded View
Prepared by Russ Thibault, President, Applied Economics Research, for NHHFA, May 2005.
- Deconstructing the Myths: Housing Development Versus School Costs
William Ray, NHHFA, as printed in Communities and Banking, Spring 2005.
- Housing New Hampshire’s Workforce
Prepared for the NH Workforce Housing Council by Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, P.C., March, 2005.
- Housing Solutions for New Hampshire Handbook
NH Housing Finance Authority (download full 7.5 mb file ), October 2004.
- New Hampshire Housing Needs Study
Prepared by Bruce Mayberry, for NHHFA, July 2003.
- Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Workforce Housing in New Hampshire
Report of the Legislative Commission pursuant to Chapter 262, Laws of 2001 (SB 21).
- Britton v. Chester, July 24, 1991
- Great Bridge Properties v. Ossipee
Strafford County Superior Court, Docket No.: 04-E-110, February 2005
- A Common Vision
The NH Growth & Development Roundtable (GDR), a group of leaders from several of NH's housing, conservation, municipal and business interests who meet together to foster a dialogue about the future of land use in the Granite State, is pleased to announce the release of a 12 minute video about their work entitled: A Common Vision. more...
- Creating a Local Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Housing Commissions

Resources and Reading – National

What does Affordable and Workforce Housing Look Like in New Hampshire?

News
- "Economist touts affordable housing", by Dale Vincent, Union Leader Staff, November 2, 2004
- "Experts say middle-income NH workers locked out of housing market", by NORMA LOVE, The Associated Press, November 14, 2005 (appeared in the November 14, 2005, edition of the Union Leader)
- "Lebanon eyes more affordable housing", by Kristen Senz, Union Leader Staff, March 22, 2007
- "Age-Restricted Housing in New England"
By Peter Francese
Forty years ago President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act prohibiting discrimination in housing based on a person’s race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, or familial status (families with children). Although other federal laws prohibit age discrimination in employment, age discrimination was not addressed in the Fair Housing Act. more...

Affordable Housing Organizations

Funding Resources

Examples of Local Regulations

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