Rep. Ellen Read 🍉

@MamuniaMaura 1612-FN

@Ellen4NH agree but I can't make out the bill number

There is an inherent conflict of interest in legislators voting on bills that they stand to materially benefit from. #NHPolitics #AOCofNH

Price-fixing is still illegal, even if there's an algorithm that enables it. ##nhpolitics #AOCofNH

Rep. Ellen Read Talks HB1675 open.substack.com/pub/gracieform… #nhpolitics @Ellen4NH

Why should we teach logic and critical thinking in our public schools?

@FosterDogSummit HB378 was the non-germane amendment in the Senate. Both were 2023, but list as 2024 because they were retained.

@Ellen4NH Thank you. She made reference to it in her testimony for #HB1675 and offered to send it to committee as follow up. So hoping it can be referenced with at least starting minute marker here. #NHPolitics

Thank you @Ellen4NH for comprehensive introduction for #HB1675 - can you publicly post referenced link with minute markers for bill where the NHCADSV aka #TheCoalition took credit for your efforts on past legislation and inserted a last minute amendment? #NHPolitics #NHGov

@FosterDogSummit I'll still try to find the exact video and timestamp, but as per Ellen - it was HB261 where they took credit after opposing the bill in the House.

"We need to be really realistic about what it means to have multiple properties when 60% of the population, with full-time jobs, cannot make ends meet." #HousingCrisis #nhpolitics #AOCofNH

Just how bad is the housing crisis in New Hampshire? #HousingCrisis #AOCofNH

@MamuniaMaura But opulent places would be forced to rent for less than market rate in order to avoid the tax, so I don't consider that a problem, but a benefit, as it would help bring down the market.

@MamuniaMaura I would be interested in figuring out how to say that in law; it's a compromise I could support. And I think the "don't be gone for 3 months" amendment idea kinda effectively gets to the same destination.

First bill out of many introduced: HB1707, which calls for both the creation of an additional property tax for vacation homes/short-term rental properties, as well as a housing transfer tax exemption for low- and middle-income home buyers. #AOCofNH #HousingCrisis #LFG

@MamuniaMaura You don't have to rent. You just don't get to keep hoarding housing in a state with a housing crisis.

@Ellen4NH many 2nd houses (not used as STR) are •too lavish to be residence •too rustic/deep off paved road to be residence •people's retirement plan •generational houses, g grampa may've had $ but grandkids holding on to it doesn't I'd rather they spend on upkeep, not let dilapitate

@MamuniaMaura If your second home is "too lavish to be a residence", you can absolutely afford extra property tax. But it may be an incentive to bring down your rent prices. Which is ALSO what I want to see.

@MamuniaMaura I also was thinking of putting a vacancy rate trigger so the extra tax is only effective when we are in crisis.

"It's easy for us to get desensitized here with the number of bills that pass through our hands... but it's really important to remember that every single piece of legislation that passes through our hands has the potential to either benefit or deeply harm 1.3 million people."

@MamuniaMaura So you don't have to live there 6 months, you just can't leave it sitting empty for stretches at a time.

@Ellen4NH I'm on board if amended just to be about Short Term Rentals not vacation houses