Maine’s housing affordability crisis is far more complex than rising prices.
The Maine Real Estate Development Association tackles the issue in an episode of “MEREDA Matters” podcast.
Chris Herbert of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and Elizabeth Frazier, partner at Pierce Atwood, sit down with MEREDA President Shannon Richards to unpack why Maine’s housing system is strained, where the bottlenecks sit and what it will take to build our way to something more sustainable.
From the cost of construction and land to the promise (and limitations) of zoning reform, small-scale infill, ADUs and new industrialized building technologies, the discussion connects national research to Maine’s on-the-ground reality.
Listen here.
