Brunswick’s town councilors unanimously voted to extend its housing development moratorium another six months in order to give the town’s Housing Committee more time to iron out its policy recommendations.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Time for Yarmouth to move ahead with inclusionary zoning
A proposed ordinance requiring developers to allocate 10% of units as affordable would be predictable and flexible and would equalize opportunity for all residents.
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Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Yarmouth Affordable Housing Committee to hold listening session
The Yarmouth Affordable Housing Committee will hold a listening session next week on the proposed Inclusionary Zoning ordinance. The ordinance would tie creation of affordable homes to the construction of market-rate housing or commercial development, according to the committee. Erin Zwirko, Yarmouth’s director of planning and development, said the committee wants to make sure the […]
Posted inLocal & State
Southern Maine residents say they’re being priced out of once-affordable city
A Biddeford task force has spent the last year looking at strategies to preserve and create affordable housing as revitalization makes the city a more desirable place to live.
Posted inLocal & State
Residents frustrated by smoking in HUD-funded housing say they ‘can’t afford anywhere else’
Residents at the Edgewood Apartments in Kennebunk say cigarette and marijuana smoke inside their building is exacerbating their health problems.
Posted inLocal & State
Homeless in Maine: Struggling to survive even with a paying job
Those who interact most closely with the homeless say it’s a misconception that they don’t want to work or try to help themselves.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Where Portland’s workforce housing falls far short
Eligibility rules mean that anybody who needs a leg up to buy their own home cannot avail themselves of the ‘decent, safe and affordable housing’ our city ‘works to ensure.’
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Conservatism isn’t coming for my generation
Is it any wonder millennials have embraced more left-wing policies of wealth redistribution?
Posted inNews
Midcoast braces for end of federal rental assistance program
The Emergency Rental Assistance program, which has helped cover rent, utility and other housing costs for over 34,000 Mainers in the past 20 months, is set to expire at the end of the month, leaving town leaders, housing advocates and lawmakers to prepare for a spike in Mainers who need help paying their bills this winter.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Fail to prepare, prepare for a tidal wave of Maine evictions
The end of ‘unprecedented’ support for American renters demanded equally unprecedented consideration and careful management at the federal and state levels. It received nothing of the sort.