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Ok-Cantaloupe7160 t1_ja9gje1 wrote

Reply to That 44-unit tiny home development, built by employer who can't keep staff by GraniteGeekNH

There a couple building projects like that in the works in Conway. A hotel owner bought an office building and is turning it into apartments. The business that was in there found that most of their employees can work from home so why maintain a building. The hotel owner is currently housing a dozen staffers at the hotel for $25/night.

A healthcare facility is also in the works and will include 200 condo units that will only be for sale as primary, long term housing, a bunch of 55+ houses and a couple dozen ‘bungalows’ that they’ll maintain as employee housing.

The owner of Settlers Green outlets is building 200+ apartments for long term residents and 18 ‘townhouses’ that’ll also be deed restricted for long term residents.

NH has been so ‘business friendly’ for the last 4 decades it’s hurting businesses.

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BigMax t1_ja9g70v wrote

Reply to comment by GraniteGeekNH in That 44-unit tiny home development, built by employer who can't keep staff by GraniteGeekNH

Yep, agreed. I think both are needed.

Housing is horribly complex. We all know we need more, but there are so many hurdles to building it.

You have NIMBY folks who don't want low cost or high density housing near them.
Then you get anyone who has a house, or owns property to lease, that doesn't want more housing since they worry it will lower the value of their assets.

It's a country/statewide issue that needs to be solved at the local level, and everyone at the local level fights it.

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phoebe7439 t1_ja9ekgc wrote

Reply to Local weather stations downplaying tonight's storm? by [deleted]

The 10:1 Ratio is just not a fun model to use, the Kuchera Ratio tends to play nicer in my experience. Either way, predicting snowfall totals using solely these maps often does over-forecast for many reasons, especially the low resolution on these longer-range models you're using and the fact that not all snow that falls will stick.

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As for what the broadcast media says, a lot of that depends on who the on-air met will be for that show, as they tend to make their own graphs and may interpret something differently or have their own model preferences, etc. The NWS will often (but not always) be more reliable since they'll have teams working on each forecast.

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TLDR: Snow is hard to forecast!

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BigMax t1_ja9cvan wrote

Reply to That 44-unit tiny home development, built by employer who can't keep staff by GraniteGeekNH

These are great - but only if they are for home ownership.

We need a LOT more starter homes in this country. Home ownership is so out of reach for so many people, we need ways to get people into the market sooner. Let them buy into the market earlier with smaller places, rather than have them wait years and years or possibly forever until they can afford a place.

The area I live in is frustrating. Every new house that goes in is some giant house on a giant plot of land. You could build 10 nice little homes on the same spot, but no one wants to do that.

And even here it's something that looks nice at first, but it sucks. This is for RENT. So the people aren't really helping that much, they are just creating a new income stream for themselves while helping their main business at the same time.

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