2025 Seacoast Housing Summit: Employer-Sponsored Housing and the Business Community’s Role in Advancing Housing Solutions

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The 8th Annual Greater Seacoast Housing Summit, hosted in partnership by the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast and the Seacoast Chamber Alliance, brings together business, municipal, and nonprofit leaders to explore this year’s theme: Employer-Sponsored Housing and the Business Community’s Role in Advancing Housing Solutions. Keynote speaker Phil Sletten, Research Director at the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute, will examine the relationship between housing and the economy in New Hampshire and the Greater Seacoast region through data—highlighting trends in migration, home prices, cost burden, and commuting.

Following the keynote, WHC Executive Director Emmy Ham will moderate a panel discussion on employer-assisted housing solutions, featuring three business leaders who have taken innovative steps to provide housing for their workforce. Joseph Linnehan of Tinios Hospitality Group, Jennifer Sargent of Dartmouth Health, and Linnea Grim of Strawbery Banke Museum will share why their organizations chose to invest in housing—whether through constructing or owning buildings, managing master leases, or creatively repurposing historic properties. Together, they will explore the opportunities, challenges, and practical considerations for employers interested in pursuing this strategy to better support their staff and strengthen their organizations.

Registration and breakfast opens at 8:00 am. Speaking program begins promptly at 8:30 am.