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RESEARCH & PLANNING | ADVOCACY & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

In the past two years, grants totaling $50,000 were collaboration among four state organizations – AHEAD
awarded to Boscawen, Peterborough, Franconia, (Littleton), CATCH Neighborhood Housing (Merrimack
Hinsdale, Candia and Rochester. With its grant, Valley area), Lakes Region Community Development,
Rochester hired a consultant, who, after examining and NeighborWorks® Southern New Hampshire
their plans, recommended the city invest in new towards building capacity and strengthening sustain-
development, streamline its project review process, ability. A third grant to Bridge House in Plymouth was
and reconsider higher lot densities and given to support marketing of their micro-enterprises.
parking requirements.
HOUSING CONFERENCES
Lakes Region Community Developers received a NHHFA hosts and supports a series of conferences
special grant to use for a market study, engineering and each year for the financial, real estate, lending, devel-
design work for its Harriman Hill Phase 3 Wolfeboro opment, nonprofit, and other housing-related sectors,
project, a development of 20 single-family houses (two as well as public officials and business leaders. These
and three-bedroom homes) to be sold to households events encourage discussion about ways to address
that are at 75 percent to 120 percent of the area median the Granite State’s affordable housing and economic
income for $200,000 or less. development needs.
The Emerging Opportunities Grant Program Among the speakers and topics presented this year
supports initiatives focused on developing and were economist Elliot Eisenberg, Manchester’s
operating affordable housing programs that serve community development consultant Susan Silberberg,
very low- to moderate-income households. Families in Canadian planning and growth expert Brent Toderian,
Transition (FIT) in Manchester received a grant to help experts on aspects of multi-family development as
them increase their housing development capacity by well as a top official from Fannie Mae talking about
working with other homeless service providers around single-family mortgage lending, and a panel of state
the state, and the NH Affordable Housing Organization housing experts at a BIA Workforce Housing Forum.
Partnership Project received funding to explore a

In May, our Multi-Family Conference focused on new approaches to affordable hous-
ing finance. Speakers (top right, l-r): Michael Swack, UNH Carsey School of Public
Policy; Bill Floyd, Genesis Community Loan Fund; Elissa Margolin, Housing Action
NH; Anne Segrest McCulloch, Housing Partnership Equity Trust; Molly Dugan & Mi-
randa Lescaze, Cathedral Square, Vermont; Dean Christon, NHHFA; Kevin Peterson,
Community Development Finance Authority. FY 2018 NHHFA ANNUAL REPORT

Our 2017 Housing & the Economy Conference featured economist Elliot Eisenberg.

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