New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said Portsmouth will not be getting any more money to extend its two-year Community Housing Navigator program, which was awarded in 2022 to hire a staff member to focus on expanding the city’s housing supply.

‘If there’s opportunity to continue to fund, continued opportunity, it’ll really be through the more traditional way, not just from me to these housing programs that align, it’ll be more traditional through New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority,’ said Sununu.

The initial funds for Portsmouth’s housing navigator came from InvestNH, a $100 million state initiative funded with federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act.

About $5 million was given to municipalities for efforts to increase housing.