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During an administrative services working group on Monday, Jan. 13, Director of Administrative Services Tim Cummings outlined the process for choosing one of the proposed projects and what the timeline will look like.
A small gathering of residents attended an informational community meeting on Monday night about the overnight winter warming station, which was held at Elm Street Middle School.
The plan for 106 Pine St. includes 10 leased parking spaces at 50 Lemoine St., which is roughly across the street. Marguerite’s Place representatives said Thursday that only half of the residents of their transitional housing – they have five units on Palm Street – generally have a car. One and a half spaces for each unit would normally be required, as well as additional spaces for the offices planned for the ground floor of the four-story building, for a total of 38.
A candidate for Governor, a big city Mayor two housing advocates, an Executive Council candidate, a State Senator, and a State representative walk into an apartment building. This sounds like a setup for a joke but it was an actual event to highlight the serious issues of affordable housing facing New Hampshire.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig and Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess met with the team from NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire (NWSNH) to tour the new apartment building at 249 Main Street
“I lost everything when that happened because I stayed with my child in the hospital for 16 days so I lost my job, I lost where I was living,” Hannan-Vitale said. “I had nothing in Maine for myself anymore, so the only person I had left honestly was my other kids’ dad and he lived in New Hampshire, so I came down here.”
The planning and economic development committee on Aug. 20 approved the Veterans Memorial Parkway Redevelopment Plan for more than 500 new housing units at the former Mohawk Tannery.
“The need in this community, as in the country is tremendous. The Nashua Housing and Redevelopment Authority’s waiting list for public housing stands at about 3,800 families. Our Section Eight Choice Voucher waiting list stands at over 4,000 families. Our waiting list for this development right here which contains 216 units stands at over 1,900 in less than a year. There is a lot more work to be done.” said Lombardi.
“I want the theme here to be that housing, while it’s being created, is likely to be in a form that does not generate school children,” community development director Matt Sullivan said at a special Board of Education meeting Wednesday night at the new McCarthy Middle School.
“What’s unique about the project is it will be built really in two phases,” said engineer Jim Petropolis. “While phase one is under construction, you can only imagine they need to relocate residents, demolish phase one, build phase one, bring residents back, and then lather rinse repeat on phase two.”
Ink Link News requested data on city housing projects in the pipeline and the Planning Department provided us with a spreadsheet [see below] on June 14 which lists 1,975 units along with statuses ranging from approved to completed.