Shift the Seacoast
What is Shift the Seacoast?
Shift the Seacoast is our grassroots initiative reshaping how communities understand and respond to housing and homelessness. Through education, advocacy, and storytelling, we mobilize residents, empower local leaders, and partner with developers to move real housing solutions forward. Together, we’re building momentum for a stronger, more inclusive future.
Some of the ways we do this include:
Neighbor to Neighbor Housing Chats – Informal, community-hosted conversations that equip residents with knowledge, dispel myths, and offer concrete ways to take action on housing issues in their own neighborhoods.
Can I Be Your Neighbor? – A storytelling campaign that uplifts real voices from Seacoast residents, landlords, and developers to humanize housing challenges and dismantle stigma.
On the Edge of Home – A seasonal collaboration with local libraries that fosters education and engagement around housing insecurity while enhancing support for unsheltered individuals.
The Local Lift – A civic engagement effort that builds grassroots momentum for affordable and supportive housing projects that address specific community needs. Powered by SiteLines, a forthcoming regional dashboard designed to track housing and homelessness data, inform advocacy, and coordinate collective action.
Neighbor to Neighbor Housing Chats
Housing affordability and homelessness are growing challenges across the Greater Seacoast Region. Neighbor to Neighbor Housing Chats bring people together to discuss these challenges, share perspectives, and explore actionable solutions.
Whether you host or attend, you’ll connect with neighbors who care about housing and discover ways to create meaningful change in your community.
These gatherings aim to:
✔️ Educate the community on actionable solutions to homelessness and housing insecurity.
✔️ Dispel myths that hinder affordable housing development.
✔️ Inspire action and engage community advocates through storytelling and compelling case-making.
By participating, you’re helping build a movement where everyone in the Seacoast region has a place to call home.
Housing chats are designed to inform, inspire, and empower residents to advocate for housing solutions.
Change often begins as a whisper—small voices that grow into powerful movements. Real transformation isn’t about grand gestures; it’s rooted in consistent, committed local advocacy. By coming together, shifting perspectives, and amplifying voices, we’re building a future where every Seacoast resident has access to affordable housing.
Why Housing Chats?
Why Should You Host a Housing Chat?
Hosting a Housing Chat is a powerful way to spark change in your community, bringing neighbors together to discuss housing challenges and solutions. By fostering open conversations, you’ll help build awareness, strengthen connections, and inspire action toward a Seacoast where everyone has a place to call home.
As a host, you’ll:
Provide a comfortable space for discussion.
Invite friends, neighbors, and colleagues to join the conversation.
Facilitate an engaging and guided discussion with our support.
Home for All provides resources, materials, and a stipend to help you host a successful gathering.
Interested in hosting or attending a Housing Chat?
Together, we can Shift the Seacoast toward a future where everyone has a place to call home.
To learn more or get started below or email us at info@homeforall-seacoast.org.
Can I Be Your Neighbor?
Your voice matters. Whether you're struggling to find housing or shaping the housing market, we want to hear from you. Let’s put real faces to the housing crisis—because every story counts.
We want to hear your housing stories.
Seacoast Residents
Shift the Seacoast starts with our neighbors. Home for All is highlighting the faces behind the communities we love, the people who keep our towns running but are being priced out of the very places they serve.
Through our Can I Be Your Neighbor? campaign, we’re amplifying real stories to show the impact of the housing crisis on everyday people, workers, families, retirees, and young professionals trying to build a life in the Seacoast.
Why Your Story Matters
Your experience helps illustrate why a thriving Seacoast means housing choices for everyone - homes of all shapes and sizes, so people of all backgrounds and incomes can live, work, and stay in the communities they love.
Landlords and Developers
Housing is essential and so are the people who create it.
Whether you’re a small-scale landlord, a first-time investor, or a seasoned developer, your role in shaping the Seacoast’s housing landscape matters.
From renting out a room to building multi-unit housing, property owners of all sizes help provide the homes that keep our communities thriving. We want to highlight the diverse ways people engage with housing—and the opportunities and challenges they face along the way.
Why Your Story Matters
Landlords and developers are key to solving the housing crisis. By sharing your experiences, you can help illustrate the realities of housing supply, the barriers to building and renting, and the ways we can create a more balanced, affordable market for all.