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HB572 Establishing the "partners in housing" program, an initiative under the housing champions fund to assist municipalities, counties, and developers in building workforce housing, and making an appropriation therefor.

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Establishing the "partners in housing" program, an initiative under the housing champions fund to assist municipalities, counties, and developers in building workforce housing, and making an appropriation therefor.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

7
💰

Your Wallet

Workforce housing development may increase housing availability and moderate costs for lower-income NH residents seeking homeownership, though the bill does not quantify affordability outcomes or cost savings.

7
🏘️

Your Community

Municipalities gain tools and funding to develop underutilized public land for housing, and expedited permitting may accelerate construction, though impacts vary by town participation and market conditions.

6
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Your Freedom

The bill expands local government authority to lease municipal property and participate in housing development, while streamlining approval processes, though all actions remain subject to local voter authorization where required.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 191-156 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 6

Voted Yes

191 R

Voted No

2 R + 153 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Laurel Stavis (D)

The Short Version

This bill creates a grant and loan program to help municipalities and developers build workforce housing (starter homes, duplexes, small apartments) on public land, with at least 20% of units affordable for 20 years. It appropriates $150,000 to catalog eligible municipal properties and streamlines permitting for these projects, with potential to increase housing supply in NH communities.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Lower-income NH residents seeking affordable workforce housing
  • ▲ First-time homebuyers looking for starter homes
  • ▲ Municipalities with suitable public land for residential development
  • ▲ Housing developers able to access grant/loan funding and expedited permitting
  • ▲ Communities facing workforce housing shortages

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Taxpayers funding the $150,000 initial appropriation and indeterminable future expenditures
  • ▼ Municipalities that do not participate or lack suitable public land

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans opposed it ( 2 for , 191 against ) , Democrats supported it ( 153 for ) , and Independents supported it ( 1 for ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-01-08
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

191R
Voted to Kill the Bill (191)
2R + 153D + 1I
Voted to Keep It Alive (156)
32
Absent
16
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (191)

Republicans (191)

Voted Nay (156)

Republicans (2)
Democrats (153)
Independents (1)
Absent (32)

Allison Knab (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Carrie Sorensen (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Luneau (D) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denis Murphy (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Ellen Read (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Glen Aldrich (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jeremy Slottje (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Louis Juris (D) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Nicole Leapley (D) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Schmidt (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Terry Roy (R) , Toni Weinstein (D)

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Bill statuses as of October 7, 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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