CONCORD — To address the state’s serious rental housing shortage, Gov. Chris Sununu and business leaders held a press conference Wednesday to promote his $100 million idea called the InvestNH Housing Incentive Fund.
As outlined in his State of the State Address this winter, the idea is to use one-time federal funds to incentivize local communities and developers to support the creation of more low to moderate housing from the rural North Country to the border with Massachusetts.
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