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November 20, 2025
The New Hampshire Council on Housing Stability has released its latest Annual Report and 2025–2028 Strategic Plan, marking continued progress toward ensuring that every person in New Hampshire has access to safe, stable, and affordable housing.
Over the past year, the Council has deepened cross-sector collaboration, aligned state and local resources, and driven meaningful policy and programmatic progress in every region of the state. The Council’s 2025 Annual Report highlights accomplishments, lessons learned, and ongoing challenges New Hampshire currently faces.
The new 2025–2028 Strategic Plan builds on these achievements, outlining a forward-looking roadmap to sustain and accelerate progress toward housing stability for all Granite Staters. Key objectives outlined within the plan include:
- Build for New Hampshire. Support the production of affordable housing across New Hampshire by strengthening housing development capacity, collaboration and policy consensus; encouraging innovative and alternative housing models; and supporting local readiness.
- Address state and local barriers to housing development. Create a pro-housing state and local regulatory landscape by supporting New Hampshire communities in updating local regulations; providing state resource incentives; reviewing building, fire and local code enforcement; and evaluating reforms in state permitting for housing development.
- Increase supportive housing. Establish a sustainable framework to expand and maintain supportive housing and create conditions that enable future growth in supportive housing supply by researching the supportive housing landscape; communicating the positive impacts of supportive housing; elevating sustainable models; and strengthening New Hampshire’s supportive housing sector.
- Strengthen homelessness prevention and homeless services. Advance systems, services and partnerships to ensure that homelessness is rare, brief and one-time by using data to drive policy, planning and impact; strengthening coordination across systems and services; expanding housing services and capacity; and increasing homeless prevention tools to support long-term housing stability.
The plan was unanimously approved by the Council on October 27, 2025. An overview and full version of the plan can be accessed via https://nhchs.org/strategicplan/.
“The release of both the Annual Report and new Strategic Plan represents both a reflection on how far we’ve come and a renewed commitment to addressing the housing challenges ahead,” said Rob Dapice, Executive Director of New Hampshire Housing and co-leader of the Council with Katy Easterly Martey of the Community Development Finance Authority and Associate Commissioner Patricia Tilley of DHHS. “Together, we are working toward a future where everyone in New Hampshire has a place to call home.”
Since its establishment in 2020, the Council has led a coordinated statewide effort to expand housing opportunities, strengthen community capacity, and improve access to supportive housing for individuals and families experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
The 2025 Annual Report and 2025–2028 Strategic Plan, along with additional information and resources, are available on the Council’s website: nhchs.org.
About the New Hampshire Council on Housing Stability
Created by Executive Order in 2020 and later codified by the New Hampshire legislature, the New Hampshire Council on Housing Stability brings together a broad base of diverse stakeholders from across the state, including State leadership, mayors, providers, and people with lived experience for the purposes of creating and implementing a plan to create housing stability for all citizens of the State of New Hampshire. The is co-led by New Hampshire Housing, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Business and Economic Affairs and the Community Development Finance Authority. More information on the Council, including news, upcoming meetings and its three-year strategic plan, can be found via www.nhchs.org.