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PORTSMOUTH Burdened with a continued statewide housing unit shortage, state Sen. Rebecca Perkins Kwoka, D-Portsmouth, came into this legislative session poised to take action on a crisis in her policy wheelhouse affordable housing.
Fresh off a stint on a 2019 task force aimed at addressing New Hampshire’s housing crisis, Perkins Kwoka is a cosponsor for NH HB 586, an act “relative to training and procedures for zoning and planning boards and relative to financial investments and incentives for affordable housing development.
The bill, she believes, is a step in the right direction toward cutting a housing deficit that Ben Frost, managing director for policy and public affairs at the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, says is about 20,000 units statewide.
Strafford County warming center open as frigid weather hits
The Strafford County extreme cold weather warming center, located at 30 Willand Drive in Somersworth, is open through Tuesday morning.
The Tri-Cities of Dover, Rochester and Somersworth activated the facility as of Friday, and it will be open from 5 p.m. each night to 8 a.m. the following morning.
The National Weather Service anticipates Strafford County temperatures throughout the weekend to be in the 20s during the day and drop down to single digits to low teens in the evening. One to two inches of snow is possible Sunday, with the potential for a snow storm that can produce upwards of six inches on Tuesday late afternoon, according to meteorologist Hunter Tubbs.