The concept of housing justice is ever evolving as new challenges (think AirBnB) add to a long list of unresolved problems. While the concept encompasses far more than the law, lawyers have a meaningful role in the fight. For over 50 years New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) has worked on multiple fronts in the pursuit of housing justice for low-income people — from defending against evictions to legislative advocacy, and from challenging exclusionary zoning by municipalities to combating housing discrimination.

Elliott Berry, who retired from NHLA in 2022 after 47 years and Lauren Greenwald, NHLA’s current Director of Housing Justice, will share some of NHLA’s successful efforts to help NH tenants obtain greater housing opportunity and security. They will also address some of the thorniest lingering problems and hope to facilitate a lively discussion of where we go from here.