HALE’S LOCATION — In presentations at a legislators forum on the “State of Housing” held Sept. 27 by the Mount Washington Valley Housing Coalition, N.H. Housing Finance Authority and White Mountain Board of Realtors, Victoria Laracy summed up the current state of housing by saying the valley is facing an affordability crisis.
“The lack of housing, and the price of housing, is literally forcing our work force away,” said Laracy, executive director of the coalition.
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