Seacoast Housing Summit on Nov. 8

‘What Can We Learn From Other Communities?” is event’s theme

October 30, 2019

NH Business Review Staff,

The 2019 Greater Seacoast Housing Summit will be held from 8 to 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 8, at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s Garrison Wing Conference Center in Dover

The theme of this year’s summit, which is produced in partnership by the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast and the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce,

is, “What Can We Learn from Other Communities?”

Panelists will include Sarah Marchant, director of Nashua’s Community Development Division; Jeff Gowan, Pelham’s planning director; Steve Witman, of Resilience Planning & Design LLC.; and Carol Ogilvie, land use consultant. The summit will be moderated by Elissa Margolin, director of Housing Action New Hampshire.

Cost to attend is $25 per person. To register, visit dovernh.org/housing or call 603-742-2218.

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