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Street life, storage bins and one landlady’s resolve to pilot privately-funded ‘pod community’

New Hampshire is in the midst of a housing crisis that extends beyond the shortage of market-rate units, past the working poor to include the state’s homeless population, a problem that has been accelerated by a lapse in statewide emergency housing funding and an increasing number of people being evicted after the COVID-19 eviction moratorium expired over the summer.

Firestone encampment: ‘I want something better for them … but this is not better’

A week ago city police were asked to notify those living in tents along the railroad tracks and behind Firestone Auto Service just off Elm Street that they had a week to relocate from the private property. Last night most of those tents were still in place, some of them vacated, but for the most part, people just don’t know where to go, said Rita Mann.