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A pair of recent reports on the housing market validate the frustrations felt by many looking for a place to live in New Hampshire.
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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.
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The two women are moving on with their lives and into new apartments, after reaching agreements Thursday with their landlord.
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Rep. Ellen Read, a Democrat from Newmarket, said the bill was meant to address the “major, major housing crisis” facing the state.
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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.
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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.
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So far, state leaders say they aren’t planning on a major replacement effort if federal rental assistance funding dries up.
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On Friday, New Hampshire Housing said no new applications would be taken for the program pending a review of whether more federal funding would be available.
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Local welfare offices are bracing for what happens when federal housing assistance funds run out.
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With two months left to spend the money, officials say the rental relief program – which compensates landlords for back rent to prevent existing tenants from eviction – is a surer bet to get it out the door.