New Hampshire Business Review - Feb. 14, 2025

Report reveals towns’ innovative responses to NH's housing crisis

To address the continued housing roadblocks around the state, New Hampshire Housing released case studies detailing several towns’ innovative responses to the shortage by using funds from the InvestNH initiative. Case studies from Bethlehem, Berlin, Canterbury, Gorham, Keene, Lancaster, Newmarket, Plymouth, Sandwich, Sugar Hill, and Wilmot appear in the Housing Opportunity Planning Grant Program: Selected Case Studies, an organization that helps fund housing solutions.

Immigrants are a ‘productive and crucial part’ of economy, state report says

Foreign-born workers — whether naturalized citizens, noncitizens with work authorizations or undocumented immigrants — comprise nearly 7% of the New Hampshire workforce, according to a report issued by the state Department of Employment Security. The 11-page report provides a statistical snapshot of the 95,000 Granite State residents born outside the United States. It calls immigrants “a productive and crucial part” of the state’s economy.