THE vast majority of Granite Staters support additional housing development, in a recent survey conducted by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center. Seventy-five percent of respondents agreed their communities need more affordable housing, 62% agreed that the state should do more to encourage municipalities to remove development barriers, and 61% felt their communities should loosen planning and zoning restrictions on new housing.

AMERICANS have wide support for stricter building standards in extreme weather-prone areas, the Pew Research Center has found. Seventy-three percent want more stringent standards, but just 13% approve of requiring people to move from these areas. Similarly, 7 in 10 Americans say they’ve experienced one of five types of extreme weather in the past year: floods, unusually hot weather, droughts, wildfires or rising sea levels.

WHEN it comes to pay gaps between business leadership and staff, two-thirds of Americans say companies do a “poor” job avoiding major pay gaps between CEOs and employees, out of 5,835 U.S. adults aged 18 and up surveyed by Gallup. Views differ dramatically based on political party, with 81% of Democrats, 64% of independents and 47% of Republicans feeling companies are doing a “poor” job.

ACCORDING to a Forbes Home report, New Hampshire may have the highest rate of porch pirates — those who steal parcels from homes in search of valuable items. The report found that goods stolen from homes in the Granite State had a median value of $75, while the state had the most Google searches for the phrase, “package stolen,” per 100,000 people.

THE annual growth rate of the e-commerce industry is continually decreasing, according to data from Stocklytics.com, despite the industry’s gross revenue expected to surpass $4 trillion by the end of 2024. Analysts expect the growth rate to drop to 4.6% by 2029 from a peak of 25% from 2020-21.