That's bad ass.

When I was a kid - in the early 80s - some drunks were smashing shantys with their truck in the middle of the night and they killed a guy sleeping in one.

What I did a couple times - admittedly completely asshole move and deserved for the fisherman to beat the shit outta me - was borrow my brother's Big Red Three-Wheeler (yeah, I'm that old) and ride down a line of tip-ups snapping them like twigs while doors busted open on shantys and some angry ass Vermonter would come flying out howling at me. I know it's bad but I'm laughing right now at it because that memory is so damn vivid. Good times.

Of course, as an adult, I got my jeep stolen in DC, so, y'know...karma.

" Town manager Jeff Schulz said Northfield has looked into complaints about its police chief and will continue to do so. Schulz declined to say whether the town would take any action, calling the situation a personnel issue."

I mostly disagree with his politics but he's got a first amendment right to express them. Northfield residents calling for his firing had better be prepared for their taxes to go up owning to the lawsuit they're going to have to pay out when he sues the town for unfair and illegal termination.

>It’s not as good as it was in the 80’s

That's damn right.

Yeah. Grew up there. Never saw anybody on the channel. But the lake was like a city for ice fisherman. This is a long time ago when winters were a lot colder and longer. Way before the digital age and everybody was into ice fishing.

If teachers were paid like doctors our country would be so much better. Meaning the vocation would attract the best and brightest.

Lake Bomoseen is weird. The channel at the south end freezes before the lake and then once the lake is fully frozen the channel opens up.

The design is fantastic. I wish WMUR had put up a schematic. It very tastefully designed with the cottages on the first 1/3 to 1/2 of the parcel from the road. The rear (woods) was put into conservation and backs up to the Bellamy River. The owners have a massive list of wanna-be tenants with no way to accommodate them. The goal for the owners and for the state is to see more of these units built to combat our workforce crisis. The next step is to build affordable two and three bedroom units so families can utilize. The real issue is finding land in desirable and accommodating communities. Dover certainly is that; they embraced this project and seek to do more like it.

Are you familiar with sarcasm?

Ohhhh, please, please, please pick number 2, Mr. Banyai.

Thanks OP. I emailed and suggested ITL.

Your comment won't age well.

Dude. No renter's insurance? I learned that the hard way, too. In Orono, ME the dumb dipshit diagonally below me started a fire by putting a candle on a wooden chair and then taking a shower. Place went up FAST and I just barely got out with my cat and ferret. Fire Dept got there quick and contained the fire. One dude lost his dog. Place was on fire and it took, like, three firefighters to hold his ass down 'cause he WAS GOING into the building to save him. In the end, my apartment was only partially damaged by fire but whole apartment filled with smoke and ruined all my shit that wasn't in bins. No insurance, never again.

There are a very small number of companies and architectural firms offering 3D-printed houses, but it is possible to currently purchase and move into a 3D-printed house in the United States. Texas-based construction company ICON is one of the largest 3D-printing companies in the United States.

This was July last year. The reason it will work is as the technology develops the cost to build homes will drop precipitously. There is a company in New Hampshire that is printing a partial home next Wednesday in a bid to secure a contract to print around 40 homes with site work starting in the Fall. The same company has partnered with a construction company to create hybrid (partially 3D printed and partially traditional stick-built) homes.

Further, there is a bill proposed in NH right now that wants to give $5 million in funding to NHFFA to mete out for projects that use innovation to create entry-level homes that SPECIFICALLY names 3D printing. To wit:

I. The homeownership innovations fund shall be used by the authority to make grants and loans to eligible applicants for the purpose of fostering innovations in the development and financing of entry-level homes for owner occupancy.

II. The authority shall consider a wide range of alternatives and solutions to affordable entry-level homeownership, including such approaches as 3D printing of homes, low cost and highly sustainable sources of energy and energy efficiency, and other concepts that will provide New Hampshire homeowners with the most advanced and most affordable alternatives available.

Get onboard, bud. The future's here.

Your snark has failed. In five years that's exactly what will be happening everywhere. And there'll be a ton more mediums than concrete. Maine is using wood flour and they're getting started now. This is being done SPECIFCALLY to increase affordable housing supply. The article can be found here: https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/11/23/3d-printed-houses-maine

UMaine unveils first 3D-printed home in a bid to mass-produce affordable housing

3D printing of homes is the answer. Google to find out what Maine is doing.

Innovation costs money, just like in any industry or process. These dollars represent NH's effort to create some new process to attack what I think is the state's most pressing need, creating affordable housing.

On this issue and legislation, I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

Fair question. I'll reply at the end, but here is the pertinent language in the bill:

I. The homeownership innovations fund shall be used by the authority to make grants and loans to eligible applicants for the purpose of fostering innovations in the development and financing of entry-level homes for owner occupancy.

II. The authority shall consider a wide range of alternatives and solutions to affordable entry-level homeownership, including such approaches as 3D printing of homes, low cost and highly sustainable sources of energy and energy efficiency, and other concepts that will provide New Hampshire homeowners with the most advanced and most affordable alternatives available.

The impetus is to incentivize applicants that create or seek to create innovations that result in affordable housing. It's a pittance, but a start. The money would go to NHHFA, who has an exemplary reputation for using resources responsibly.

Thanks Sarah. I'll be there as will John R. and a few others. The main sponsor told me that there is some concern that this will compete with the Innis bill. I disagree - both are needed. She also said that Ben F. helped write it. My hopes are someone from your office will be on hand to support.

Also note HB 177 which expands 79-E to include parcels of land in a community where there is "public benefit". This is a game changer for affordable housing for communities of the willing. In other words, if attainable/affordable housing is deemed by a community a public benefit, they could create a 79-E zone and maintain level taxes for up to 9 years (I'd have to explain but will L8R) on any one property in that zone despite new taxable growth - a huge incentive for a developer. Likewise a town, as part of the 79-E contract, could make as a condition to accepting such an incentive that the property remain affordable in perpetuity by covenant. To wit:

"II.(a) "Qualifying [structure] property" means a building or parcel of land located in a district officially designated in a municipality's master plan, or by zoning ordinance, as a downtown, town center, central business district, or village center, or, where no such designation has been made, in a geographic area which, as a result of its compact development patterns and uses, is identified by the governing body as the downtown, town center, [or] village center, or area of a municipality where revitalization and development would be a public benefit for purposes of this chapter."

The bill seeks to assist with new technologies that make new housing more affordable, including the 3D printing of homes. Mandalorian here - This is the Way. 3D printing, especially as it continues to evolve, is 100% the solution. Homes built more cheaply, faster and more sustainably is the only way to attack the housing crisis. Please look into it; they've already started in Maine and Texas. It will be mainstream in the next five years. New Hampshire needs to get onboard quickly and not be left behind like we are with solar.

The reason to email Senator Bradley is that - my opinion - if he supports the legislation, it passes. With a Republican House, Senate and Governor, the Senate President is uniquely positioned to influence most bills. Writing your own reps and signing in online in support should be done as well.

Asking for 87K friends, can you tell me (read: us) how to sign in online?

Thanks!

"As the argument escalated, she said the man broke a mirror and then pointed a gun at her while she sat on the bed with her 3-year-old child."

Broke a mirror? Now he's really screwed.

If you like this and want to see more of it, please support SB 202 - being heard at committee next week - by emailing jeb.bradley@leg.state.nh.us your support.

Here's the bill text:

https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2023&id=1011&txtFormat=html

John and Maggie Randolph out of Exeter. They own Harmony Homes and built housing on site in Durham for their employees. Even opened a daycare for their employees and others. They're the bomb!

Go to a welfare office in an affluent town. They'll set you up in a hotel. I'm going to DM you this in case you miss it.

I'm suggesting no non-owner occupied homes in the project by using a zoning overlay.