SoHo Bistro to reopen after landlord-tenant dispute forced temporary closure
SoHo Bistro & Lounge on Old Granite Street will reopen later this week after being evicted last Saturday in a dispute with its landlord.
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Black restaurant owner feels targeted after two incidents of vandalism
He said he has no idea who wrote the slur on his window or whether it was a disgruntled customer or someone who is a racist. And he doesn’t know why someone would cloud his restaurant windows.
‘I don’t see good things coming and I don’t have an answer for these tenants who are getting displaced’
Two local landlords talk about on the current housing market and the challenges of property management.
Hotel rooms are the new normal for hundreds of evicted families; hundreds more on waiting list
The pandemic and hot New Hampshire real estate market has disproportionately affected the state’s very low income who are being ousted from their homes by current landlords citing the need to renovate the aged housing stock.
Elliot Berry, on a career devoted to protecting the vulnerable: ‘If you don’t have a place to live, your whole life unravels’
Over his career, he’s worked on thousands of individual client cases, numerous appeals and class action cases. In 1990, he won an exclusionary zoning case against the town of Chester, challenging its zoning restrictions that prevented housing development for low- and moderate-income families.
Rundown apartments allowable under city’s minimum housing codes
Housing code regulations enforced in the city are minimum standards designed to protect health and safety, according to a building department official. They do not necessarily address what an average person would consider abysmal conditions within an apartment.
Ribbon cut on 11 affordable FIT apartments, a ‘successful blueprint’ to be replicated
People residing in the city’s Manchester Street shelter will move to the head of the list for one of 11 new, affordable studio or one-bedroom apartments unveiled Tuesday on Union Street.
2021 annual homelessness report: Unsheltered population has doubled since 2020
Emergency shelters had to put in pandemic safety measures, which reduced the number of beds available. With the housing vacancy rate remaining at less than 2 percent over the past three years, many people experiencing homelessness in 2021 “stayed in places not meant for human habitation as their only solution to survival,” according to the report.
New chapter for family forced out of Wilson Street apartment
A month after she and her family were evicted from their apartment of 15 years because the landlord wanted to renovate it, Trina Luna is now happily relocated in a first-floor apartment in the North End.
IRS weighs in on NH Liquor Commission’s cash sales policy
The State Liquor Commission (SLC) and its employees are not required to report large cash sales of more than $10,000 to the IRS because “governmental units” are exempt under federal law.
Disabled woman facing eviction April 3 struggles to find affordable apartment
The daughter of a disabled woman being evicted from her apartment of 15 years has opened a GoFundMe page to help pay for her mom’s relocation costs, including the required upfront first month’s rent and security deposit.
Hooksett’s The Cake Fairy: Where sweet dreams come true – including her own
HOOKSETT, NH – A few years ago Lisa Lucciano woke up one morning, turned to her husband, Don, and said she was going to open a bakery. “What are you going to call it?” he asked. “The Cake Fairy,” she answered. For years, her husband had always given his daughter small gifts saying they were …