GREENLAND – Pati Frew-Waters, executive director of Seacoast Family Promise, looked around the transitional housing organization for homeless families’ latest housing acquisition and said, it was “just perfect.”
Seacoast Family Promise held a ribbon-cutting for its newest housing unit at 480 Breakfast Hill Road in a former multi-family home previously owned by Bethany Church Friday afternoon. Frew Waters said the home is currently able to house five families who are taking part in Seacoast Family Promise’s programs.
Frew-Waters said the upstairs has an additional kitchen that can be put into use if a family requires isolation due to COVID-19 exposure or it can eventually be converted into additional living space for a sixth family. Currently, there are four families residing in the new facility, she said.
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American Rescue Plan grants to aid initiatives in Manchester, Nashua, around state
April 14, 2021
The state of New Hampshire and the cities of Manchester and Nashua will be receiving a total of $18 million in federal grants to help expand affordable housing and fight homelessness.
The grants, announced by members of the state’s congressional delegation, from through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which is funded through the recently passed American Rescue Plan.
All told, $5 billion is set aside in the ARP to provide assistance to states and communities to expand access to new affordable housing, rental assistance, supportive services and non-congregate shelter units.
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But solving adequate affordable housing remains a priority for housing advocates
March 15, 2021
Martha Stone, executive director of Cross Roads House in Portsmouth, which provides emergency and transitional housing services. ‘Even people who are employed cannot typically afford a market-rate apartment,’ she says. (Photo by Scott Merrill)
One year after the Covid-19 pandemic was declared a public health emergency by Gov. Chris Sununu, the rental market in New Hampshire will receives another dose of government assistance on March 15. But even with new relief on the way, the creation of affordable housing remains a pressing issue.
The latest round of assistance $20 million – comes from a stimulus bill passed in January that dedicated $25 billion to the states.