Coming in 2024
Coming in 2024
Since finishing and self-publishing my futuristic utopian Green New Deal novel Waiting For the Storm I have spent nearly all my time thinking about housing in New Hampshire and particularly here in Manchester. When I started WFTS at the beginning of 2019 housing was not even really on my radar. I woke up to the crisis when the police cleared a homeless encampment on the grounds of the courthouse in late 2019.
Of course, since then, NH has woken up to the fact that we need something like 7,200 new housing units in the Southern New Hampshire Planning Region between 2020 and 2025. I am a generally hopeful futurist, but I am having a hard time imagining how we will get all of this housing built, and where it will go.
We all know that homelessness and a general lack of housing are problems all over the country. I already spend a lot of time searching for and reading about solutions elsewhere. So, I am going to write a blog to share these potential solutions hoping to jump start the creation of affordable housing here.
First, I am going to share the story of Community First Village, a Tiny Home Village outside of Austin Texas that has inspired a number of spinoffs.
I will also share stories of kind of an opposite approach- from LA, where they pretty much discarded all rules and reviews for affordable housing.
In Philadelphia, where the SEPTA Transit agency was planning a $50 million commuter parking garage near one of their stations, they have now pivoted, and they are putting out an RFP for housing near the station instead.
And more! Stay tuned.
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