🔥 CONCORD’S HOUSING TYRANNY: TAX BREAKS, GOVERNMENT CONTROL & WORKFORCE HOUSING—HOW MUCH MORE CAN NH TAXPAYERS TAKE? 🔥

CONCORD HOUSING TYRANNY: MORE TAX INCENTIVES, MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL

The bill, signed into law by Governor Ayotte on July 2, is another example of Concord trying to use the tax code to influence what gets built, where it gets built, and what kinds of housing municipalities are encouraged to create.

https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB1103/id/3286568

The legislation expands RSA 79-E so municipalities can create “housing opportunity zones” and “residential conversion zones,” offer property-tax relief for qualifying projects, and provide longer tax-relief periods when workforce housing is created.

That means state law is increasingly being used to shape local housing policy through tax incentives.

And here's the bigger question:

How much government intervention do New Hampshire taxpayers actually want?

Instead of continually creating new programs, zones, incentives, mandates, and bureaucratic mechanisms, why not address the underlying causes of housing costs?

Less government. Less regulation. Less interference. More housing-market freedom.

The immigration issue is also part of the debate: reducing unauthorized immigration is one policy approach that could reduce housing demand.

Politically, this isn't simply a Democratic issue. The expansion of government housing policy has occurred under Republican and Democratic administrations alike. If the concern is government overreach, then the standard should apply regardless of which party controls Concord.

Sununu administration? Government housing intervention.

Ayotte administration? Examine the policies on their merits.

Democrats? Don't assume they'll reverse it.

The fundamental question is:

Should New Hampshire families and municipalities have more freedom to determine their own housing future—or should Concord increasingly dictate it through taxation, incentives, regulation, and government-designed housing programs?

Less Concord. More local control.

Less government. More housing freedom.

Stop turning New Hampshire's tax code into a housing-policy weapon.