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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 10, 2021

    Loosen up restrictive zoning to allow more housing units on lots.

  • December 9, 2021

    How about we finally bring back personal accountability? If I want something I can't afford now, I find a way to work for it and then get it. I don't expect taxpayers to help me get it. I have worked two jobs before to make sure ends meet and know others that have 3 to 4 jobs. People need to get the notion that they will be taken care of from cradle to grave out of their heads, get a job, get some training, do something to help yourself! If there is no surplus housing then developers will develop to make money. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing this.

  • December 8, 2021

    The less the government and our politicians are involved the better. In the words of Ronald Reagan “Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”

  • December 6, 2021

    Growth is not, and never has been, THE answer. Manhattan island had a few hundred or thousand residents in 1600, 2+ million today. THAT is growth. Is that what we want? I don't think so!

  • Robert Feller
    December 6, 2021

    Any time that Government intervenes in any fashion we the taxpayer(s) end up losing and this is a prime example of virtue signaling government in action. Anyone who ever took an economics class in college should recognize Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" which exemplifies how the law of supply and demand works in a normal economy and how any intrusion will eventually underpin and destroy what it set out to fix. There is no right to affordable housing in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights and if the house you want is outside your credit rating, look elsewhere.

    On what basis is it [other than virtue signaling] that would allow a municipality or for that matter a state agency to demand that housing must be built to accommodate those who cannot afford it?

    Life didn't come with a warranty. Deal with it or find a way to fix it yourself without government subsidies.