Frequently Asked Questions
Housing
What can government do to lower housing costs?
Kris wants more homes of every kind. He plans to write legislation to help towns audit their land for underused parcels and work with local builders to develop them, and to look at acreage minimums that block multi-family housing. He will protect Housing Champions funding, which rewards towns that make room for housing.
What is Kris’s position on lease terminations and evictions?
Kris opposes no-cause lease terminations. He believes renters should have the right to fight back against a landlord, and that lease terminations and evictions should require 60 to 90 days’ notice. Thirty days is nowhere near enough time to find another appropriate home when New Hampshire’s rental vacancy rate is under one percent.
What does Kris think about rent increases?
He believes the laws that allow steep rent increases need a look. He and his wife lived through a 25% increase in one renewal.
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Why are Concord property taxes rising?
Concord’s rate rose 5 percent in 2025, to $29.11 per $1,000. Local property taxpayers cover about 72 percent of public education costs in New Hampshire. The state covers about 26 percent, the smallest share of any state. Kris calls this downshifting: the state pays less, and towns fill the gap with property taxes.
What would Kris do about school funding?
The state sends districts a base amount of $4,266 per student. In 2025 the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that this is unconstitutionally low and affirmed a conservative minimum of $7,356 set by a Superior Court judge. In January 2026 the House voted down HB 651, which would have raised aid to that level, 190 to 155. Kris wants the state to pay the bill it already owes and to write the increase so it lowers what Concord has to raise locally.
What is Kris’s position on Education Freedom Accounts?
Kris opposes the program as it is now structured. It has no income limit and draws on the same Education Trust Fund that supports public schools.
How would Kris raise the revenue for a larger state share?
Kris wants to bring back the interest and dividends tax and to restore business taxes. Business tax rate cuts since 2015 have cost the state between $795 million and $1.17 billion in forgone revenue, according to the NH Fiscal Policy Institute, and New Hampshire raised 125 fees and fines in the current budget. Kris would rather ask those who benefited from the cuts than keep raising fees and property taxes on working families.
Where does Kris stand on abortion?
Kris believes the decision to have an abortion belongs to a woman and her doctor, not the legislature. He does not believe lawmakers should dictate medical decisions about a woman’s body, and he believes Roe v. Wade should not have been overturned.
Property Taxes and Public Schools
Gun Rights
What is Kris’s position on the minimum wage?
New Hampshire has no minimum wage of its own above the federal $7.25 an hour. Kris believes the state should adopt its own, at least $15 an hour, and he is not at odds with the Democratic bill that moves toward $17.
What is Kris’s position on child care costs?
A year of infant care in New Hampshire averages $16,462, and the state has lost about one in seven licensed programs since 2017. Kris sees child care as part of the same squeeze as rent and property taxes.
What does Kris want to do about electric bills and renewable energy?
Default electricity rates rose about three cents per kilowatt-hour on August 1, 2026, adding roughly $6 to $18 a month for most households. Kris wants to bring electric bills down and to look harder at expanding green and renewable energy in New Hampshire. The Sierra Club (NH) has endorsed him.
Where does Kris stand on cannabis?
Kris supports legalizing recreational cannabis for adults in New Hampshire, with licensed private sellers and tax revenue collected by the state, similar to the system Massachusetts uses. The House has passed legalization, the Senate has killed it, and New Hampshire is the only New England state without it. He describes the tax revenue, in the millions of dollars, as a down payment on property tax relief rather than a cure.
Where does Kris stand on gun rights?
Kris owns guns, hunts and shoots at the range. He supports the Second Amendment and the right to own guns, and he believes gun ranges should not be taken out of New Hampshire. His approach is respect the right and require the responsibility.
What does Kris want on mental health and gun safety?
He wants New Hampshire to expand mental health services, and to hold mental health centers accountable for reporting involuntary and court-adjudicated cases to the federal background check system, which today relies heavily on self-reporting. He would like New Hampshire to adopt a crisis process similar in spirit to Florida’s Baker Act, with trained professionals, clear clinical criteria and a hearing within 15 days.
Does Kris have gun legislation planned?
Yes. He plans a bill to let licensed hunters carry a loaded rifle or shotgun on an OHRV or snowmobile for lawful hunting. It would extend the loaded-handgun exception that has been in law since 2022, keep the requirement to stop the vehicle before taking a shot, and not apply to cars, aircraft or public roads.
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Voting rights
What is Kris’s position on mail-in voting and voting access?
Kris supports mail-in voting and reducing barriers to voting so that every eligible Ward 9 resident can cast a ballot.