What Can ALL New Hampshire Citizens Do?
- Learn the facts about New Hampshire’s housing situation and recognize the link between an adequate and balanced housing supply and our state’s economic and social stability.
- Participate in local planning processes and monitor local regulatory practices to ensure that they provide reasonable opportunities for appropriate housing development.
- Tell your local officials that you expect them to support actions which lead to a balanced housing supply and be prepared to support specific housing initiatives that make sense for your community.
- Communicate your concern about the lack of adequate housing to state policymakers and advocate for policies and programs that support housing development.
- Join the Greater Nashua Workforce Housing Coalition! Click Here
What Can Business Leaders Do?
- Communicate with state and local policymakers about the need for an adequate and balanced supply of housing in New Hampshire and advocate for public policies and resources that support the development of workforce housing.
Communicate with your state representative.
- Support the creation of housing for working families.
- Serve on Boards of community development corporations and other non-profit housing providers and support their efforts to create housing.
- Take advantage of state and federal tax credit programs that provide equity for housing development while reducing tax liability.
- Make a municipality’s willingness to provide housing opportunities appropriate to the needs of your workers a condition of business expansion or relocation.
- Participate in local planning efforts or sit on local housing-related boards and commissions.
- Offer employer-assisted housing programs that provide assistance with down payments or security deposits and encourage employee participation in home buyer education classes.
More info here » Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Nashua (NHSGN)
- Join the Greater Nashua Workforce Housing Coalition! Click Here
What Can Municipal Officials Do?
- Recognize the importance of an adequate and balanced housing supply to your community’s economic well-being and ensure that your community’s planning, zoning and land use regulations and practices permit and encourage the development of a range of housing types that will adequately meet the region’s and state’s housing needs.
- Ensure that local regulatory policies, such as building and fire codes, do not unnecessarily add to the cost of creating new workforce housing.
- Exempt affordable housing from fees and building caps, and create flexibility in other requirements – such as density standards – to reduce the cost of housing development.
- Implement mechanisms like incentive zoning, which allow new housing developments to include a certain amount of housing for low and moderate income households, or mixed-use zoning that allows a blend of commercial and residential development in a town center.
- Support the work of local non-profit housing providers to help meet your community’s housing needs and consider transferring municipally-owned land and buildings suitable for residential use to non-profit housing providers.
- Join the Greater Nashua Workforce Housing Coalition! Click Here
What Can State Policymakers Do?
- Recognize the direct connection between an adequate and balanced supply of housing and the state’s continued economic well-being.
- Establish a long-term commitment to ensuring that the state achieves and maintains a healthy housing infrastructure to support ongoing economic growth and prosperity.
- Provide guidance and support to local governments to ensure that state-delegated planning and land use regulatory authority is used to promote a balanced and adequate supply of housing for all New Hampshire citizens.
- Provide incentives to communities that show leadership in addressing the state’s workforce housing needs.
- Join the Greater Nashua Workforce Housing Coalition! Click Here
Source: New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority’s Housing Awareness Project
20 Broad Street, Nashua, NH 03064