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Ah yes, those that set wages and also act as landlords have absolutely nothing to do with whether their employees can afford an actual decent place to live or not... amazing logic.

My brother in Squid, this has been a downward trajectory since the 80s. This isn't a new issue. Yes, allowing corporations to shape everything about or communities and society at large is exactly why we find ourselves in this current situation. Allowing them to buy ALL of our politicians so that they advocate for corporations and industies over human beings is exactly why we find ourselves in this current situation.

Idk about you, but when I was a kid in the New England almost everything was locally owned. That is not the case anymore. Corporate America is literally destroying society and the planet itself, and somehow there are still folks out there licking their boots.

Look at how the people of France fight to protect their workers. Yet here, "free thinking" Americans are wholly and willfully corporate wage slaves wandering around mumbling about "bootstraps.". It's pathetic, honestly. And the crazy part is that it is the people that screech at others about being "sheeple" that are the most brainwashed by their corporate overlords.

Yes but not everything in life is mutually exclusive with a better answer. Creating new housing makes housing more affordable across the board.

Did you just put a picture of your child on this forum? I would take that down if I were you. Do you know about Reddit? It’s not a good place

I'm always amazed that tiny houses are trotted out as if they have just been invented. All you have to do is go up and down the East Coast to any older city and you will find plenty of tiny houses, row upon row of them many of them incredibly derelict where nobody wants them anymore.. I'm not against any houses at all, in fact I'm looking for a relative small house for myself at the moment in New England, but I would much rather see people reinvest in what is already existing then rather sprawling across the landscape with new stuff. There is so much of it to be had, in the "wrong" neighborhoods. Florida or up and down the whole coast or probably into the Midwest. It's time that rather than building new, there's new interest in a measured gentrification if you will or renovation or repopulation of areas of concentrated growth... The warning is there for these new tiny developments wherever they may be. If they're populated with people that have little money , Little werewithal, what will happen of them once the first generation leaves or moves on.. housing should be more than just a roof over your head, but part of a community and this is what's missing sorely in the US. This understanding of how to knit all of this stuff back into the fabric of a real urban life, place you can walk to work, find employment and live in a real neighborhood

Well let's hope you're wrong. I understand where you're coming from though. Like many pro-legalization folks I see this as a justice, cognitive sovereignty and health issue. Whereas our lawmakers only seem to see 💲💲.

Well that sucks

That's pretty good to hear. Especially if the childcare is included with that, thats an incredible value and its frankly great to see that kind of a solution. I don't know enough to form an opinion on this specific case, in general I think I don't like relying on the benevolence of an employer to provide affordable housing/childcare. This sounds like a local employer with roots in the area, so that probably helps. I hesitate to say this is a good scalable model (meaning vertically integrated employer provides employee housing at a cost) just because i have a hard time thinking the amazons of the world are going to be very benevolent.

The problem is offering an extremely overpriced temporary solution instead of an affordable permanent solution. The problem is allowing a local corporate entity to call the shots and create a feedback loop in which a portion of the low wages they pay their employees just comes right back to them. This is a very dangerous path to go down, one we have been down before and it never works out well for society at large.

And yes, I do enjoy a lot of privilege in this life right now, which is exactly why I am using my place of privilege to speak up for and advocate for those who aren't as lucky as me. I'd also encourage you to keep in mind that not all of us that enjoy privilege were born with it. Many of us know the other side way too well.

My sister lives in Concord and every time I go to visit her I can't help but think how much wasted potential NH cities have. Concord, Manchester, Nashua, and Portsmouth are just tiny, fragmented downtowns surrounded by a bunch of single-family zoning. Imagine if everything was re-zoned and looked closer to Cambridge Mass.

Then again, I suspect people move to NH specifically because they like the rural character of the state.

You just sound like a contrarion. What about new, relatively dense housing development is bad for society exactly?

Finally something looks nice in Nashua IMO

Sorta.

Most employers in America aren’t “corporate America”. The other poster seems to not understand there’s a difference there. Majority of jobs are employed by small businesses.

Wages are certainly an issue however in a competitive economy (where most small businesses operate) individual businesses cannot wander too far from the pack with wages or they’re no longer able to compete. Wage reform needs to be system wide.

Zoning is the only real issue to focus on for affordability. I use my mums house in San Diego as a perfect example. She could get a million plus for it. The house itself is like 900sf… meh quality. The land is what’s driving the price. Those cities are god awful. Like mostly single family zoned which is why they’re so expensive. Could tear her house down and she still get most of the price for it. Even the article points out that to build larger units they’d have to pay an additional $13,000 per unit fee which is asinine.

You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store.

You need to watch the news, not WMUR which is busy with a trailer. They want the whole south China sea. Philippines and Vietnam have claims. They shoot the fishing boats of these nations. They want to take Taiwan by force instead of wealth. Taiwan supplies 80% of the worlds electronics.

Ok, the conclusion here is we don't like companies building housing for their employees, I have conflicting thoughts on this as well and not particularly comfortable with it. Can we then remove exclusionary zoning so that it's easier for non-companies to build housing? Can we allow people to have low density mix use, i want corner pubs and grocers! Can we push for a elimination of the detach single family home mandates, and all it's associate mandates that increase housing cost through limiting type and supply, and that increases municipal infrastructure cost through the growth of suburban sprawl? Can we focused on better public transit to increase the possibility of having mobility options, vehicles are the second most expensive thing a family has to pay for after housing. Can we stop moving our municipal services out of the city/town core just because it's cheaper to buy a farm plot and put a highschool out in the edge of town? Service spread is a way of guaranteeing that those who can afford to move around through cars are the only ones that get access to a service. While also increasing infrastructure sprawl and the cost associated with this on a municipal level.

I like market basket.

Most big-box grocery stores have some kind of butchery in them. While a chain might not be local, the employees are. I consider Market Basket local though.

Housing isn’t in the current situation it is in because of corporations. Corporations buying housing is a side effect of the root issue; poor zoning.

Single family homes on large lots isn’t sustainable or affordable. You need density. Has nothing to do with corporations.

Sounds like you enjoy privilege and don't understand how most people have it. This housing is affordable to many people looking for short term solutions, so what's the problem?

>It an employers’ need to pay enough to keep employees people decide to to work for someone because the amount they are offering to pay is not enough to live on. The employer needs to up their offering if they want to have employees.

And they can do that by... keeping up with the price of housing.

Nope all around. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage IN THE COMMUNITY YOUR BUSINESS IS LOCATED then you can’t afford to be in business there 🤷‍♂️

You attitude here is literally why everything sucks in our society. The reason this wage and housing crisis is so bad, is because we allowed corporations to call the shots since the 80s. It’s not working.

Remind me which company you are CEO of again?

It just sound like you both are arguing the same thing...one is focus corporate greed and the other the inherit failures of exclusionary zoning... It's two sides of the same coin.

So the forecast has gone through a reduction up in the Lakes Region since I released this yesterday, the only drawback to Reddit is I don't want to bombard people with updates every 24 hours haha. 4-8" is the call for everyone in the Lakes Region except for Wakefield, Middleton, Ossipee, & Effingham (8-12" remains in play there).

This problem hasn’t been urgent forever, and those of us that paid attention in school and took in these lessons from history, have been trying to get all the brainwashed corporate bootlickers of our society to get their collective heads out of their collective asses for the last 40 years. And now that it IS urgent, you idiots still want to lick boots instead of listen to the people whose concerns are continually proven right? This is why we can’t have nice things.