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How We Can Fix Maine’s Housing Life Cycle
- The Maine Legislature is considering a measure to inventory and transfer surplus state-owned land to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank to support housing development.
- This initiative arises from the high cost and difficulty of converting unsuitable state properties into housing amid Maine's ongoing housing shortage.
- The state owns about 600,000 acres, but lacks a central database and much of the land is hard to develop or distant from populated areas.
- Recent projects include MaineHousing's purchase of defunct courthouses and the Sanford Housing Authority's acquisition of a court building to create affordable units.
- If passed, this policy could increase the availability of developable land and aid local efforts to alleviate housing shortages despite no single large-scale solution.
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Can this land help solve Maine's housing crisis?
What do an old courthouse, a vacant school, a foreclosed home and acres of empty land have in common? They are all examples of the kind of state-owned property that could eventually become housing under a subtle policy change that is making its way through the Maine Legislature. Few such cases have emerged in recent years despite the state owning 600,000 acres of land with extensive campuses in major cities including Augusta and Bangor. That is …
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Portland Press HeraldHow we can fix Maine’s housing life cycle
By removing regulatory barriers and encouraging thoughtful development, Maine can get things moving again.
Canada’s housing crisis deepens as landuse policies push prices beyond reach
This article supplied by Troy Media. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal among the world’s least affordable housing markets, says international report Canada’s housing affordability crisis has worsened, with no major market rated affordable and several ranked among the least affordable in the world, according to a new international report The Demographia International Housing Affordability 2025 report by Wendell Cox, published by the Frontier Centre fo…
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Nairob. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) warned this Thursday that the current “global housing crisis” will cause a “humanitarian emergency” if Governments do not “immediately” tackle the problem. That strong message resumed in Nairobi the second UN-Habitat Assembly, which was held in June 2023 in the Kenyan capital, but left pending issues that it must now address, such as the adoption of the agency’s 2026-2029 strate…
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