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Lakes Region Community Developers announced the start of construction on a $5.4 million project to renovate the 25-unit Deer Run apartment complex and rename it Harvey Heights. It is among the latest efforts to provide affordable housing for working families.
New Hampton-based New England Family Housing has received permission to convert the shuttered Brown School in Berlin into affordable housing, but the plan has widespread opposition in the community because many people equate low- to moderate-income housing with Section 8 low-income housing that, in the past, led to deteriorating neighborhoods rife with crime and drug use. Today, by law, all housing may be subject to Section 8 rental assistance for qualified families, but the overall housing complex is aimed at workers of moderate income such as teachers and police officers.
Renovation of the future Harvey Heights complex at 62 Pleasant Street in Meredith is scheduled to last 12 months. Carmen Lorentz, the executive director of Lakes Region Community Developers, said, “This project has been five years in the making and we’ve had to overcome many obstacles. I’m proud of our team for persisting against all odds to preserve these affordable units and bring them up to our healthy housing standards.”
Deer Run was built in the 1970s through a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development financing program that required that the property be maintained as affordable housing for 40 years. The developer sold the property to Lakes Region Community Developers in 2016 to preserve it as affordable housing, rather than converting it to high-end housing.
Governors Seek Flexibility With Federal Funds
Sixteen state governors, including New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu, sent a letter to the White House asking for flexibility in the use of federal money authorized through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Calling it “a great opportunity for needed infrastructure investment in our states as long as the funds are distributed efficiently, quickly, and appropriately,” the governors said their programs should get implemented “without unnecessary bureaucracy and delay to rebuild America’s infrastructure.”
“Therefore, we ask that your Office of Management and Budget (OMB), along with the respective federal agencies charged with implementation, draft regulations and guidance that defer to the states and confer maximum regulatory flexibility,” they wrote.
“As we have seen with the implementation of the American Rescue Plan Act, restrictions on the use of funds not authorized by statute are unacceptable and often struck down by the judicial system. In addition, excessive new discretionary grant programs would circumvent the planning process and potentially cause a programming and oversight nightmare. Further, there should be no overlap or inconsistencies with discretionary grant programs and existing funding programs,” the letter continues.
“A clear example of federal overreach would be an attempt by the Federal Highway Administration to limit state widening projects. Attempts to disallow the use of funding for general purpose widening projects would be biased against rural states and states with growing populations. Such a policy fails to recognize the differences in state priorities, funding levels, and transportation networks across the 50 states. Future prosperity would be negatively impacted if this anti-growth mindset is allowed to become firmly entrenched in transportation policy.”
From Our Readers: Take A Stand
I have seen letters to the editors lately where people think it is wonderful for a woman to destroy an unborn baby who cannot speak for itself and call it “woman’s right to decide”. They also think voting without an ID is a good thing, or if you don’t live here full-time, you should be able to vote. They think this type of voting is a good thing for NH and us who are 100 percent vested in NH. Again, they think those who do not want to take the risk and get multiple vaccines are evil people and we should be denied health care or access to a hospital. They want everybody to get injected no matter what the risk is and be injected with a drug that once in your body can never be reversed.
In the love of God, I am asking where are the Christians today? Get out of the church pews and take a stand between good and evil! What I’m talking about are all the injustices that are happening today and those injustices they are trying to make into laws! How can government officials allow abortions and call it “health Care”? What kind of people want the right to kill a baby up to birth and even after he/she is born, again calling it “health care”? Why are we humans so bent on destroying their children, our heritage? Why does mankind want depopulation and using abortion as a means to that end? You have to wonder who is behind all this. Soon they will want to kill or imprison all people that do not believe as they do and disguise it as “Mental Health Rehabilitation”.
I am asking Christians and the good moral people of NH to stand up now! Stand up and stomp out this decrepit way of thinking. Vote for those who love life and will protect our liberties and freedoms. Get involved, run for office, you could win and make a difference. Can’t run then give financial support. Start following what God asked us to do. Go preach the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Take a stand for God, show your faith in Him and start telling everyone there is hope in Jesus. Tell them to repent from their sins (we all have sinned) before it is too late. Change to a new direction by living for Jesus and God. Don’t wait, do it today.
John Sellers
Bristol
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