Development
FIRST Communities
A residential development venture focused on compact, beautiful, aging-friendly homes that integrate affordability, sustainability, health, and flexibility.
Explore our housing approach →New Hampshire • Housing with purpose
A better home for the next chapter.
Reimagining how homes are designed, developed, and delivered—bringing affordability, sustainability, health, and adaptability together from the start.
The opportunity
New Hampshire doesn't just have a housing shortage. It has a housing mismatch.
Many older homeowners want to downsize without leaving the communities they love. Younger households need access to the family-sized homes that might become available when better downsizing options exist.
What if one new home could help solve both problems?
Two complementary initiatives
From better ideas to better homes.
Research & demonstration
NH Housing Innovation Lab
A proposed collaborative platform to test and validate building materials and systems that could help make healthy, climate-resilient housing more attainable across Northern New England.
Explore the Lab concept →These are distinct initiatives with a shared originator and complementary goals. The Lab's proposed research would be intended to benefit the broader housing ecosystem.
Meet the FIRST Home
Downsize the house. Not the quality of life.
Small by intention, generous in the ways that matter.
Our early home concept emphasizes universal design, efficient use of space, daylight, fresh air, durability, and lower ongoing energy demands.
We are evaluating potential New Hampshire pilot sites, including smaller infill opportunities, to test what can be delivered at a viable price.
See the home concept
Our philosophy
To innovate, we must integrate.
Financially responsible
Affordable to buy and to live in.
Sustainable
Lower energy and resource use across the life of a home.
Thriving communities
Health, independence, belonging, and quality of life.
Build what's next
Good ideas become meaningful when people bring them to life together.
We're connecting with builders, developers, researchers, universities, municipalities, funders, and other partners who share this vision.
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