Housing Prices Reach Another Record High Under Kelly Ayotte 

CONCORD, NH — In Case You Missed It, Democratic candidate for governor Cinde Warmington recently joined New Hampshire Today, where she highlighted her focus on addressing New Hampshire’s housing crisis and skyrocketing property tax rates.

According to new research from the Hampshire Association of Realtors, the median cost of a home in New Hampshire has hit another record high of $575,000 under Kelly Ayotte — the previous record was set in June 2025, when it reached $569,000. 

You can listen to the full interview here. Key excerpts are below:

Taking Action to Address the Housing Crisis

RYAN: Let’s speak specifically on affordability, and two areas we touched upon yesterday that I feel haven’t really been dealt with sufficiently in Governor Ayotte’s first term. One is on housing, where it does not feel that there has been a lot done to make housing more affordable in New Hampshire, to perhaps put pressure on municipalities and towns to allow for more projects. [...] What would you do specifically in order to create more affordable housing?

WARMINGTON: Well, you’re absolutely right, Chris that Kelly Ayotte has completely failed the state of New Hampshire on this really critical issue. I mean the lack of housing is what is driving our young people out of the state. It drives the unhoused population up and of course it makes it hard for businesses to hire people. We need to be 100 percent focused on this. And one thing that the listeners may not know, that there is currently nobody in state government who is responsible for knowing how many housing units we have, how many we need, and designing the plan to get there. So let’s start with that. [...] We need to do that right away. 

Tackling Sky-High Property Tax Rates

WARMINGTON: We’re going to put forth a budget that focuses on the working people of the state. Every decision that we make in this state should be seen through the lens of the working family — not big corporate interests. And we have seen that Kelly Ayotte has completely failed the state on property taxes. They are through the roof. They are through the roof because of things like her education voucher scheme that just simply is a pickpocket scheme taking money out of the pockets of working people and handing it to the richest people in our state and driving up everybody’s property taxes. We need to tackle that problem, and we need to stop downshifting to our cities and towns. And Kelly Ayotte’s solution to this is just to point the finger of blame at the cities and towns for her excessive spending  [...]