Updated: 1/8/24
Coming January 2024! Sign up for study circles at the bottom of the page.
The City of Portsmouth has engaged Portsmouth Listens to facilitate a series of community participation events about Places to Live in the city. This effort is to inform and listen to the community about housing concerns. Events will be held between January and February of 2024 to discuss existing places to live, challenges in accessing them, ways to create more, and the impacts of doing so.
Participants will discuss our community’s housing needs in depth, and brainstorm how we can meet those needs in an effective and equitable manner.
The Places to Live series will begin with a “Housing 101” event on Thursday, January 11, 2024. The public is invited to attend this kickoff event to be held at City Hall between 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Eileen Dondero Foley Council Chambers.
Following this kick-off event, participants will deliberate in study circles with a trained facilitator to understand the issues and develop solutions. These conversations will not be about specific housing types, properties, or demographic groups. Instead, conversations will broaden understanding of the character and variety of existing housing, and the needs and choices of places to live for all current and future members of the Portsmouth community. Insights from these sessions will be presented at a community-wide event to be held in February.
Your voice as a citizen matters. Portsmouth Listens, along with the City of Portsmouth, want to hear from YOU about your experiences and thoughts with housing in Portsmouth. From your participation in public events, surveys or study circles, you and the City will learn more about challenges and needs with places to live in Portsmouth, how more of those places may be created, and what the community believes it will take to get there.
Places to Live Dialogue – Study Circle Registration
To register as a participant, please fill out the form below or contact Howard Snyder, Housing Navigator in the City’s Planning and Sustainability Department via email at hasnyder@cityofportsmouth.com.
Places to Live Dialogue – Survey
Unable to participate in the study circle groups but still want to be a voice in the dialogue? Please fill out the form below or visit this link.