Casey McDermott
Senior News EditorI oversee our coverage of health and equity, youth and education, and mix of other issues affecting people in New Hampshire. I work with reporters on stories that aim to help people feel more connected to their fellow Granite Staters, better equipped to understand complicated systems that affect their daily lives, and to hold powerful people and institutions accountable to the people they’re supposed to serve.
Contact Casey at cmcdermott@nhpr.org.
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New Hampshire landlords are currently required to give at least 30 days’ notice for rent increases. If tenants don’t agree and don’t have a lease, they could face eviction. -
Local advocates say it shouldn't take a federal mandate to provide multilingual election information in New Hampshire. -
The new bill may prohibit N.H. landlords from refusing to rent to a tenant participating in the government's Housing Choice Voucher program, with some exceptions. -
Since September, more than 160 people have avoided eviction because of this effort. -
Statewide, advocates have counted at least 74 people who died without a place to live in 2021. -
Since the coronavirus first arrived in New Hampshire, it has hit adults over age 60 the hardest. But in recent months, it's claimed a growing number of people in younger age groups. -
New Hampshire is experiencing its biggest surge ever in COVID-19 hospitalizations. Hospitals are feeling the strain. -
Since the New Hampshire Emergency Rental Assistance Program program launched in March, more than 19,000 applicants have sought financial help to cover rent, utilities or other approved housing-related expenses. -
Newly released numbers obtained by NHPR offer a never-before-seen snapshot of what kind of outbreaks the state was monitoring across all work and community settings during the first 18 months of the pandemic. -
Local renters and housing advocates in Manchester say the city isn’t holding property owners who repeatedly violate the housing code accountable.
