Special Project: Invisible Walls

“Invisible Walls,” a joint project of the Granite State News Collaborative, NH Business Review, Business NH Magazine and NH Public Radio, describes how exclusionary zoning laws have reinforced areas of persistent poverty, impacting many aspects of community life, including crime, public health, affordable housing and access to economic opportunity in Manchester. The team used Manchester as a case study, but the same sorts of exclusionary zoning practices present in Manchester are common across the state, and likely have had similarly-broad effects.

Invisible walls

A century of exclusionary zoning has helped divide Manchester by income and race

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State of the City: Mayor urges focus on long term

Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais delivered his State of the City on Tuesday, Feb. 10, framing a path to the city’s future through the lens of history.  His speech, at times rapid-fire and metrics-driven and at others raised to the passionate, oratorial tone of a secular civic sermon, addressed a standing-room-only crowd of business and civic leaders at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College.

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