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Eric Lund - Town Council
Elected office for which you are running: Town Council
Occupation: Research Scientist
Education: S. B., physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., physics, Dartmouth College
How long have you lived in Durham? 26 years
Have you previously served on any government/community, civil boards, commissions, or organizations? If so, please provide a brief background of your prior experience. I have been on the Town Council since 2022, and served as Town Council representative to the Historic District/Heritage Commission (2022- ), Cemetery Committee (2023- ), and Energy Committee (2024- ). I have served in several roles with the MIT Alumni Association: board member of the MIT Club of New Hampshire (including two years as president), class officer, reunion committee co-chair, and educational counselor (field interviewer for students, mostly from local high schools including Oyster River, applying for admission to MIT).
Please provide a brief paragraph explaining your interest in being elected to the position for which you are running. Durham is a special community, and I am fortunate to have ended up here as my career has been in a field where one must usually go where the job is. However, times are changing, and we must find a way to adapt to these changes without losing the characteristics that make Durham special. One of our biggest challenges is housing. As a university town, Durham has many housing options for people in their early 20s (mostly but not exclusively undergraduate students), and several developments for people 55 and older have been built over the last decade or so, but we have few options for the people in between. Most people raising families are in this age range, as are most graduate students, an important part of a research university like UNH. The overwhelming majority of housing in Durham that would be attractive to such people is single family residential houses, but the recent sharp increase in real estate prices has made this option unaffordable for most younger people. As a Town Councilor I would work to improve housing options for this group, who are a key ingredient to keeping Durham a viable and vibrant town.
