Effects of Seacoast’s persistent housing crunch reverberate across area’s communities

Skyrocketing rents and home prices have contributed to everything from rising homelessness to workforce shortages

By: Paul Cuno-Booth

Outlets: Granite State News CollaborativeSeacoast Online

Published: September 17, 2026

Words: 1,944

Last Updated: 1 day, 1 hour ago

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Talia Walley has moved around a lot in the past two years.

First there was the landlord who told her to vacate the mobile home she was renting in Epping because he wanted to sell it — only to turn around and rent it to someone else. Then there was the apartment in Rochester that stank of cigarette smoke.

Now she needs to move once again — but everything she looks at is too expensive. …

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