Rental Market

Keene and Dover’s welfare offices have seen clients need more housing and shelter support as rents continue to climb.

The law requires landlords to return money that’s not justifiable as part of the application process.

Opponents say there’s already other reasons for landlords to get rid of residents under existing law.

A pair of recent reports on the housing market validate the frustrations felt by many looking for a place to live in New Hampshire.

Low-income tenants no longer have access to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program; that initiative, which used federal COVID relief money to give rental aid to qualifying tenants, ended in October.

The two women are moving on with their lives and into new apartments, after reaching agreements Thursday with their landlord.

Rep. Ellen Read, a Democrat from Newmarket, said the bill was meant to address the “major, major housing crisis” facing the state.

The state had originally approved the money in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, which led a number of displaced Afghans to enter resettlement programs in the U.S.

The state will devote $20 million in federal COVID relief money to help the hundreds of people without housing to stay in hotels through the winter.

So far, state leaders say they aren’t planning on a major replacement effort if federal rental assistance funding dries up.