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April 21, 2021
PC Construction has begun work on two major projects in New Hampshire. The 232-unit Edgebrook Residences, a residential development in Merrimack is a $43.1 million project that includes construction of four individual five-story residential buildings with parking garages. The plans also include a 5,000-square-foot clubhouse, featuring community space, a leasing office, exercise and yoga rooms and a cyber café. The company also recently began work on the $19.6 million the city of Manchester Wastewater Treatment Facility Solids Trains project.
Munch’s Supply, a portfolio company of Charlotte, N.C.-based Ridgemont Equity Partners, has acquired
Nowhere to go: Family searches for new home after mid-pandemic eviction
Melissa French and her family were evicted from their Peterborough home so their landlord could renovate. Staff photo by Abbe Hamilton
Melissa French and her family found a new home about a month after being evicted. Staff photo by Abbe Hamilton
Melissa French, of Peterborough. Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 Staff photo by Abbe Hamilton
Melissa French’s family never quite bounced back from the 2008 housing crisis.
They spent the past decade in tenuous housing situations before finding an affordable place to live in Peterborough in 2015. The stability allowed French to put down roots for the first time in years, even joining the Monadnock Area Transitional Shelter (MATS) board in 2018, but she was forced to face the region’s grim rental market once again this year when she received an eviction notice from their landlord, who wanted the house empty by April so he could renovate and sell.
Published: 2/24/2021 4:35:46 PM
Melissa French’s family never quite bounced back from the 2008 housing crisis. They spent the past decade in tenuous housing situations before finding an affordable place to live in Peterborough in 2015. The stability allowed French to put down roots for the first time in years, even joining the Monadnock Area Transitional Shelter (MATS) board in 2018, but she was forced to face the region’s grim rental market once again this year when she received an eviction notice from their landlord, who wanted the house empty by April so he could renovate and sell. It took an exhaustive monthlong search and crowdsourcing funds to move and pay down some credit card debt, but she finally secured a rental in Dublin to move to in April with her husband, three kids, and a cat. To French, her experience highlighted the serious consequences of the Monadnock region’s lack of affordable housing.
Lawsuit Seeks Protection for New Hampshire Residents Facing Dangerous Institutional Placements in Nursing Facilities
CONCORD, N.H. New Hampshire residents who depend on the state to provide them with Medicaid-funded long-term care are suing the state for its failure to properly administer its Choices for Independence (“CFI”) Medicaid waiver. New Hampshire Legal Assistance, Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire, AARP Foundation, and the Manchester office of Nixon Peabody LLP represent older adults and persons with disabilities enrolled in the CFI program who filed a lawsuit in federal court today on behalf of themselves and other CFI participants. They allege that New Hampshire’s failure to deliver CFI services places them at risk of unnecessary and dangerous institutionalization in nursing facilities.
New Hampshire recouped the smallest share of overpaid unemployment benefits east of the Mississippi River in 2020, but that hasnât stopped people from stressing about it.
âItâs been a long, tiring emotional toll on me,â Seacoast resident Suzanne Anderson wrote in an email. âThe stress alone is horrendous.â
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Employment Security wants the 50-something Anderson to repay more than $4,000 in unemployment benefits she received last year. She now lives in a Portsmouth homeless shelter.
In November, the New Hampshire Sunday News reported that Employment Security was seeking nearly $25 million in âoverpaymentsâ from more than 10,000 people among a record number who received unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic.