By JIM WASSERMAN, Sacramento Bee
Kim Braziel bought her first townhouse three years ago when she was 26 and a single, working woman in Los Angeles. She recalls the move when she was just four years out of college as a stand for financial independence.
“I just didn’t want to pay anyone else’s mortgage,” Braziel says. “I wanted to invest in my own future.” Read the rest of this page »
By Priscilla Miller
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Staff
Original Publication Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
JAFFREY Plans to renovate the downtown Cheshire Jaffrey Mills for a 30-unit affordable-housing project have some residents worried. State Representative Stephen Pelkey brought some citizen concerns to the Planning Board Tuesday night.
Pelkey said several residents contacted him with concerns about low-income housing coming to downtown Jaffrey. He said he was a looking for a definition of “low-income housing.” Read the rest of this page »
Business briefs
JAFFREY — Community development block grant funds became available this week for a project that will convert a portion of the town’s old mill building into workforce housing.
According to Jaffrey Economic Director Brandon S. Gray, Manchester-based Great Bridge Properties is heading the project, slated to begin within upcoming weeks.
The west side of the mill will be converted into 30 new work force-priced apartments, said Gray, most of them two- bedroom units but with some one- and three-bedroom units.
According to Gray, the project is expected to be completed by fall.
Keene Sentinel, Saturday, January 20, 2007
Ross Gittell,
Carsey Institute, Winter 2007
New England’s economic future will shape and be
shaped by demographic trends in the region, and there
are some disturbing patterns emerging showing a decline
in the young adult population. Businesses need a
dynamic labor force that includes a pool of young adult
workers. Read the rest of this page »
By Steve Landwehr, Staff writer
Salem News, NH
IPSWICH - Martha Frost has an important, rewarding job. She works with frail, elderly patients who can’t pay for the medical services they need without going into a nursing home.
“I firmly believe in helping people stay in their own homes,” Frost said.
But Frost, 47, has never owned her own home.
Like many social service workers, she doesn’t get paid a lot of money - she figures if she’s lucky she might be making $40,000 a year within the next five years. That’s well above the poverty line, but nowhere near enough to fulfill her dream of buying a house in her hometown of Ipswich.
Frost’s is one of the affordable-housing stories that seldom gets told. Read the rest of this page »
Chris Fleisher
Valley News of Lebanon
LEBANON — When Red River Computer Co. announced plans this month to leave Lebanon for more office space in Claremont, developers said it highlighted an issue that has been simmering in the Upper Valley for several years.
Now, it seems to have reached full boil.
“It’s getting to the point where, between lack of the ability to expand and the cost of housing, you’re going to see one or two major companies withdraw from Lebanon,” said Bruce Waters, a commercial real estate broker at McLaughry Real Estate. “It’s going to have significant reverberations in the marketplace.” Read the rest of this page »
By Adam Leech
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH — Dozens of residents, business owners and affordable-housing advocates attended Monday night’s public hearing on an ordinance that would provide incentives for developers to create affordable housing. Read the rest of this page »
PETER J. CLEARY
Sentinel Staff
In the latest modification of a downtown Keene redevelopment, two proposed buildings grew up a bit. The Keene Planning Board gave the okay Monday for fifth stories on two buildings the Monadnock Economic Development Corp. plans for the city’s former railroad property east of Main Street. Also Monday, the board considered two proposals for senior-citizen housing. Read the rest of this page »
Freeman Klopott
Sentinel Staff
JAFFREY - Another lawsuit is now looming even as Robert Van Dyke’s plan to build 36 houses in the protected zone around Mount Monadnock takes small steps forward. A group of 20 Jaffrey residents and the Society for the Protection of N.H. Forests have filed a petition for a rehearing with Jaffrey’s zoning board. Read the rest of this page »
By Nicholas Retsinas | December 6, 2006
Soon Children will be re enacting Clement Moore’s ritual — hanging stockings on the fireplace mantle and hoping that a portly fellow in a red suit will squeeze down their chimney with an oversized bag of stuff. Certainly hundreds of thousands of children live in homes with fireplaces: 55 percent of new homes today have one fireplace. In another 5 percent of new homes, children have more than one to choose from. If Santa has to go to the bathroom (after all that milk, all those cookies), he will be in luck. Over 95 percent of new homes have at least two bathrooms; over 50 percent have more than two bathrooms (compared with 15 percent of homes built in 1971). Read the rest of this page »