Strategic Plan
The 2025–2028 Strategic Plan of the Council on Housing Stability responds to New Hampshire’s current housing crisis with a clear, coordinated roadmap to guide work over the next three years.
Grounded in evaluation and shaped through a collaborative planning process, the plan builds on the Council’s strengths as a cross-sector leader, policy catalyst, and trusted convener. Charting a strategic course that focuses the Council’s efforts on areas of greatest impact, feasibility, and alignment with its mission.
The Council developed the following objectives to guide its work over the next three years.
Build for New Hampshire.
Support the production of affordable housing across New Hampshire by strengthening housing development capacity, collaboration and policy consensus; encouraging innovative and alternative housing models; and supporting local readiness.
Address state and local barriers to housing development.
Create a pro-housing state and local regulatory landscape by supporting New Hampshire communities in updating local regulations; providing state resource incentives; reviewing building, fire and local code enforcement; and evaluating reforms in state permitting for housing development.
Increase supportive housing.
Establish a sustainable framework to expand and maintain supportive housing and create conditions that enable future growth in supportive housing supply by researching the supportive housing landscape; communicating the positive impacts of supportive housing; elevating sustainable models; and strengthening New Hampshire’s supportive housing sector.
Strengthen homelessness prevention and homeless services.
Advance systems, services and partnerships to ensure that homelessness is rare, brief and one-time by using data to drive policy, planning and impact; strengthening coordination across systems and services; expanding housing services and capacity; and increasing homeless prevention tools to support long-term housing stability.
Across these priorities, the plan emphasizes upstream solutions, systems coordination, and innovative approaches to resources, regulation, and service delivery. By aligning state and local action, fostering partnerships, and focusing resources where they will make the greatest difference, the plan aims to catalyze measurable progress.
To ensure effective implementation, the Council will operationalize this plan through four established workgroups that align with the strategic objectives above. These workgroups will serve as the engines of the Council’s efforts by developing targeted action plans, advancing cross-sector collaboration, and tracking progress to ensure that strategies translate into measurable outcomes.