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From Rangeley to Cape Elizabeth to Old Orchard Beach, plans for affordable housing made news last week.

On Mount Desert Island, in Skowhegan and elsewhere across the state, residents also face dilemmas about how to keep housing costs manageable. Meanwhile, Maine home prices continue to soar.

In response, some people see the creation of more dedicated affordable housing as a first priority.

Others feel Maine needs more housing of all types, and that greater inventory will naturally generate greater options for low- and middle-income Mainers.

What should Maine be doing, in general, to address shortages of affordable housing?
Incentivize development of more affordable housing (48%, 152 VOTES)
Incentivize development of more housing in general (23%, 74 VOTES)
Let the housing market function without extra incentives (29%, 94 VOTES)
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Sponsored by: OTELCO, a fiber internet provider

From Rangeley to Cape Elizabeth to Old Orchard Beach, plans for affordable housing made news last week.

On Mount Desert Island, in Skowhegan and elsewhere across the state, residents also face dilemmas about how to keep housing costs manageable. Meanwhile, Maine home prices continue to soar.

In response, some people see the creation of more dedicated affordable housing as a first priority.

Others feel Maine needs more housing of all types, and that greater inventory will naturally generate greater options for low- and middle-income Mainers.

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13 Comments

  • December 6, 2021

    The best weapon against gentrification is to allow tiny homes, housing on non-conforming lots, mobile home parks and build affordable housing.

  • December 6, 2021

    I am in favor of more afforable housing, however, providing more units at the next level of income up (ie workforce level) will free up more lower level units.
    The state Tax Incentive Financing (TIF) program is regularly used for affordable housing. Towns should use it for workforce level housing as well, as osme cities and towns are already doing (see Biddeford, Lewiston, Augusta).

  • December 6, 2021

    Maine's communities needs affordable housing and year-round housing that is affordable to its lower income residents as well as to housing that's affordable to median income workers.

  • December 6, 2021

    There should only be 2 questions … incentivized affordable housing or not. By having 3 questions, you have diluted the respondents who do not agree with affordable housing. Typical biased polling technique to get the answer you are biased towards.

  • December 6, 2021

    The question is, what is affordable housing? It has been my experience that incentivized affordable housing is actually very low income housing which omits a great percentage of the labor force. Middle-income is a section of the population that is almost always left out of these types of initiatives.