A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws led in the
Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present. Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja and
Alderman Dowd arrived after roll call at 7:07 p.m. and 7:15 p.m., respectively.
Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
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PRESENTATION
Nashua Housing Authority
Lynn Lombardi, Executive Director of the Nashua Housing Authority
Over to my left is Eric Wilson, Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners and James Tollner, who is also a
commissioner on my board. We wanted to come here tonight and meet all of you. | know there’s been a big
turnover, and we’ve never had the pleasure of sitting here in front of you. We've put together a brief synopsis
of what we do at the Nashua Housing Authority, how we operate. We are 100 percent federally funded. We
operate both public housing and Section 8.
As far as public housing goes we own and operate and manage 662 units of public housing throughout the City
of Nashua. We do a good job in the City of Nashua. We house those of the lowest income. Families, elderly,
non-elderly disabled. We also run a Section 8 program. It consists of over 800 Section 8 housing choice
vouchers. With that program, we also do project based voucher programming. We have 11 project based
vouchers over at Cotton Mill. We also administer 31 project based vouchers through Southern New
Hampshire Services over at Salmon Brook.
Aside from that we have a small development called Nashua Parkview Apartments, LLC. That is low income
housing, tax credit and HOME funds. We have partnered with the city before. Through our federal funding the
Nashua Housing Authority pays annually to local landlords $7 million to house our families. It is a big program
and costs a lot of money. Our waiting list, our Section 8 program, we are looking at approximately a 7+ year
wait just to obtain a Section 8 voucher to get housing. We do the very best we can. We approach HUD on an
annual basis to see if we can obtain more housing choice vouchers so we can assist more families in need.
Our public housing program, we have well over 2,000 people on our waiting list. Depending on the bedroom
size, families can wait as short as one year for an elderly or non-elderly disabled unit. Our largest need is for
two-bedroom family housing. That bedroom size you're looking at easily a 5+ wait. We're doing the very best
that we can.
