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A PRIMER ON WORKFORCE HOUSING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

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Primary Author: New Hampshire Housing
Edited By: Arsalan Hasan
Published By: New Hampshire Housing

The State’s workforce housing statute requires all communities to provide “reasonable and realistic opportunities” for workforce housing, including rental multi-family housing. Additionally, the law requires that such housing is permitted in the majority of the residentially zoned land in each municipality. For an opportunity to be reasonable and realistic, workforce housing must be “economically viable.” To achieve this, the statute specifically states that lot sizes and densities required by local ordinances and regulations must be reasonable, but does not numerically define “reasonableness.” Rather, it leaves it up to each city or town to determine what alternatives provide the best solutions in the context of the municipality’s unique regulatory scheme. The Legislature clearly stated that it intended to provide communities with the “maximum feasible flexibility” to meet their workforce housing obligations

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