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New Hampshire Legal Assistance launches housing discrimination website
Website launched by Fair Housing Project Share Updated: 6:39 PM EDT Apr 28, 2021 The Associated Press
Website launched by Fair Housing Project Share Updated: 6:39 PM EDT Apr 28, 2021
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Show Transcript JEAN: TONIGHT THERE’S A NEW TOOL TO PREVENT HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THE FAIR HOUSING PROJECT L’ANSE A WEBSITE TO HELP VICTIMS LEARN ABOUT THE TYPES OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AND REPORT THEIR CONCERNS AND SEEK EVALUATION OF THE CASE. THERE CAN BE A RANGE OF ISSUES BUT THERE ARE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO HELP PURSUE RESOLUTIONS. IF YOU HAVE BEEN DENIED AN APARTMENT BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN ASSISTANCE ANIMAL. IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD BECAUSE YOU HAVE CHILDREN YOU SHOULD BE DESIGNATED TO CERTAIN UNITS IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX OR CERTAIN BUILDINGS IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX, WE ARE HERE TO HELP. JEAN: YOU WILL FIND A LINK TO THE NEW WEBSITE ON WMUR.
More tenants at Concord’s Cranmore Ridge given ultimatum – pay more for a new apartment or move out
Dean Christensen has lived at the Cranmore Ridge complex with his wife and four-year-old daughter, Grace, for almost three years, but they have already started packing, ontheir way to Fort Myers, Florida, where he found nice apartment in a gated community for less than $1000 a month. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
Dean Christensen has lived at the Cranmore Ridge complex with his wife and four-year-old daughter for almost three years, but they have been packing for a move to Fort Myers, Florida, where he found an apartment for less than $1,000 a month. GEOFF FORESTER photos / Monitor staff
NH Business Review
Measure to add another $10 million wins widespread backing at Senate committee hearing
February 17, 2021
It seems like there’s a good chance more money will be appropriated into New Hampshire’s Affordable Housing Fund in order to fill the gap in financing for such housing.
The money is in the budget proposed by Gov. Chris Sununu as part of Senate Bill 127, an omnibus appropriations bill proposed by Senate Majority leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro. And now it is in SB 152, an affordable housing bill introduced Wednesday to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee by Sen. James Gray, R-Rochester, who sits on the committee, to Bradley who chairs it.
By Bob Sanders - NH Business Review
• Feb 16, 2021
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Can New Hampshire spend $200 million in federal money to keep people in their homes when it wasn’t able to spend $20 million last year for the same purpose?
That’s the question being asked by state officials, housing activists, tenants and landlords while they wait – after the state’s Housing Relief Program ended on Dec. 18 – for the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance program to begin.
And no one really knows the answer.
“It depends on the universe of need that’s out there,” said Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and executive director of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery, or GOFERR.