The Disingenuous Narrative Devised To Undo Maine's Home Rule Authority

Out with the Newspeak! Let's Get Real!

Maine’s LD 2003 production community character for Maine Photo by Richard Horne on Unsplash

Why the Gaslighting?

The idea that the housing shortage in Maine or the USA is caused by housing underproduction is a well-crafted narrative but historical data shows that the cause of the housing shortage is not the underproduction of housing needed for residential living and so one must ask why and how this narrative became the basis of a statute, HP 1489, that robs Maine communities of their constitutional Home Rule right to decide matters local and municipal in character.

The terminology ‘housing underproduction” connotes houses as a consumable with a quota to be met endlessly year after year replacing what was used up the year before. The narrative goes on, that, for the sake of protecting our environment from climate change, we must not allow the homes to sprawl spaciously into our open lands, instead, for the climate’s sake, housing for the masses whose income is below the median must be …