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By ETHAN DEWITT

By the time Susan Bell accepted her parents’ offer to live with them, she had already experienced one of the hardest months of her life.Back in October, the 55-year-old had endured two stays in the local hospital, first for double pneumonia and later...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Hopkinton, like many New Hampshire towns, faces an urgent need for affordable and elderly housing – goals that have been slowed by restrictive building regulations and an even more fundamental problem – affordability.“Even if you build affordable...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Like those before her, the woman came to the Cross Roads House homeless shelter in Portsmouth in crisis. She’d lost her car, which she’d been living in for four years, in a fire. She’d also recently lost her son.Unlike most at the shelter, the woman...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The town of Conway does not have a homeless shelter. But it does have a few motels.That’s enough to draw unhoused residents in the area to the town’s welfare office to seek temporary relief. When they arrive, General Assistance Officer B.J. Parker is...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A proposed housing development off Stickney Avenue in Concord to renovate five former Department of Transportation buildings into multifamily housing units that was once a point of contention between the state and city has received the green light to...

By ETHAN DEWITT

When a proposal for a statewide law allowing single-family homes to be subdivided hit the New Hampshire House floor last week, the outcry was swift. House Bill 44 would have allowed any single-family homeowner connected to municipal sewer and water...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Permits to build homes in New Hampshire increased by more than 11% in 2021, according to a report released by the state Department of Business and Economic Affairs, adding more than 9,000 units to the state’s housing stock and a second consecutive...

By ABBE HAMILTON

Although there are ways for the seven cabins at the Walden Eco Village to get into compliance, former casita (or tiny house) resident Quinn Kelley acknowledged there was very little hope that he’d be able to return to his 140-square-foot...