Latest News - December 2024

Your Support Helped Us Do So Much

As the year draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on everything we were able to do this year thanks to supporters like you.
 
This year, we:

• Started construction on Bay Street Apartments in Laconia, which will offer 12 units of supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness.
• Assembled over $11 million in funding for Harriman Hill III in Wolfeboro, which will provide 30 units of affordable rental housing. We completed construction drawings and put the project out to bid. When bids came back 20% over budget, we didn’t give up. We applied for additional grant funds to close the gap. We plan to begin construction in spring 2025.
• Provided resident services to 384 residents in 320 households. Resident services helps people maintain stable housing and empowers them to pursue their goals.
• Provided eviction prevention services to 218 households. We processed 96 payments totaling $17,744 on behalf of 43 of those tenants to keep them housed. This critical work prevents homelessness in our community.

We can’t do any of this without your support. Please consider making your tax-deductible donation to LRCD by December 31st to help us make an even bigger impact on the housing crisis in the Lakes Region in 2025.

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Housing Champion

​Thank you to Sheehan Phinney (SP) for being one of our Housing Champions this year! We rely on the expertise of the Affordable Housing Group at Sheehan Phinney to structure our deals. We greatly appreciate their financial support of our mission.
 
“We are proud to support LRCD’s unwavering dedication to creating healthy homes and vibrant communities for people in the Lakes Region. Their great work is an example of what can be accomplished through hard work and commitment. Sheehan Phinney’s Affordable Housing Group is honored to be a Housing Champion.”
 
~ Ken Viscarello, Chair, Affordable Housing Group at Sheehan Phinney 

Pictured above from left to right: Margaret Probish (SP), Kara LaSalle (LRCD), Greg Chakmakas (SP), Sue Manchester (SP), Sal Steven-Hubbard (LRCD) Ken Viscarello (SP), Chloe Golden (SP), and Valerie April (SP).

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Bay Street Update

​We are so grateful to Heart & Hands Thrift Shop, a non-profit thrift shop established by three local churches in Meredith, for their $3,400 grant to furnish an entire apartment! Heart & Hands invests all profits from the thrift shop back into the community.

Construction at Bay Street continues to move ahead on schedule with completion anticipated in late March.

Pictured above: Carmen Lorentz of LRCD with Anne McDonough and Tom Witham from Heart & Hands’ Board of Directors.

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The Home Possible Project

​We are pleased to announce that we have been engaged as a consultant by The Home Possible Project to help them assemble the financing needed to make their vision a reality.

The Home Possible Project’s mission is to create supportive housing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities in the Lakes Region. A site for their project was recently donated by the First United Methodist Church of Gilford.

Pictured above: Lisa DiMartino of The Home Possible Project and Carmen Lorentz of LRCD.