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Merrimack · MerrimackFor a great example of the delays local land use regulations can cause for housing construction in New Hampshire, you don’t have to look to the towns where building is made the most difficult. Even in housing-friendly towns, strict regulations delay and often prevent projects. Merrimack is one of the more housing-friendly communities in the state. It has lots of apartments, and that has given it a rental vacancy rate of 2.5% (as of 2023). That’s…Read Article
How strict zoning can delay development even in housing-friendly towns - THE JOSIAH BARTLETT CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Portsmouth, New Hampshire · Portsmouth“I find more and more that dependency from [upon] the will of others is always some diminution of human happiness, principally to a man accustom’d to follow his own will uncontrolled.” – Jan Ingenhousz to Ben Franklin, 1777 During the two weeks since Americans celebrated the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, political discourse in the United States has been peppered with angry denouncements of any effort to increase the nu…Read Article