Open those windows and guarantee you’ll smell your neighbors burnt pizza airing out or hear them laying pipe on a Friday night.

I mean I don’t know what to say to that. There’s obviously a massive shortage of housing in the seacoast, whether it’s comparatively affordable rental units or homes for purchase. I think this project gives a new option to people who would be interested in this specific style of housing.

For a private developer to build housing and guarantee that the rent will be regulated to be “affordable” is pretty rare. They easily could have purchased the property, subdivided it into individual lots and then sold those at a prohibitive price point and made a lot more money in a shorter time.

Maybe they're doing me a favor by making it tedious for me to spend money on drugs. I guess I should be grateful? 🤔😶

I would take a standalone living space over a shared building any day. Yes, a neighbor might be 6ft away in a building next door, but not having loud noises all around you inside your own living area is worth it....and being free from all the smells.

Well speaking as a young individual (I hope I can still say that), what I want most of all is to own something I can afford, not rent. $1200 for a ~500 Sqft apartment is about average for the area, but it's still not a good deal. The novelty of your apartment being its own independent building would quickly wear off and you'd have to come to the conclusion that you're essentially overpaying to rent someone's in-law suite, or that you could probably have saved money if these were built as a single building instead of 44 individual ones.

The whole point of a tiny house is to own something compact and low-footprint to save money while still owning your own home, renting kinda takes that away.

I think they mean retention ponds.

I can't tell if you are serious? You really think your neighbors' homes has no influence on your home value?

I have to ask, are you a home owner? Your statement seems really out of touch with the realities of home appraisals and realestate evaluation.

Some people might prefer this style of housing. Whether it has downsides in efficiency or not. Also worth noting that due to zoning, large multi-family housing structures aren’t permitted to be constructed in certain areas.

You realize that this is a public forum, right?

People are gonna voice their opinions.

> It will have an influence on the home values in the neighborhood so it is a concern for the residents of that area.

Not only is this argument absurd, the social norm that people can make this argument without being laughed out of the room is also absurd.

If space and materials were our primary motivators, we'd all be living in the equivalent of a jail cell. Own nothing, live in a pod, eat bugs.

Henniker is a lovely small town. I loved my time there.

There's very little practical benefit to a stand-alone building if it's six feet from the next building over. Basically it's spending a couple hundred dollars a year in heating costs to save a hundred bucks in sound proofing.

Now we know where to score some Chinese food and a view.

Vetoed again.

Nice to see even the smallest reforms are impossible.

Sure it's wasteful of space and materials, but at least it's not a large apartment building

Yeah, but from the looks of it they're still only ten feet away from their neighbors.

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Laughs in Chris Sununu

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It sounds to me like this whole “tiny house” phrase needs to stop being used altogether. It’s become rather meaningless.

My dad grew up in a 500 sq ft house. It wasn’t a “tiny house.” It was just a small house, built before all the NIMBY tyrants destroyed the American dream.

You used to be able to buy a house from the Sears catalog and build it yourself, on your land. Karens couldn’t stop you. Let’s go back to that, and stop making it so you need a fucking PR agent to build a small affordable house.

Talk about cabin fever in the winter.

44 master-bedrooms on 7 acres. What could possibly go wrong?

Why should taxpayers be on the hook for the $5M appropriation? I'm guessing that's going to come from property tax, which just makes home ownership more expensive.