The State of Maine Uses Housing Crisis to Double Down Central Management over Home Rule

A Look at Maine's New Emergency Housing Act!

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This is a layman's view of Maine’s New Housing Act!

I have often noted in this newsletter that today our government is run by public-private-for-profit-nonprofit relationships as no more apparent than in An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions

Nationally, Corporate ownership of single-family homes is a great cause of homelessness, and the lack of affordable housing. This phenomenon has not hit Maine yet, to my knowledge, when it does it will be more difficult than ever to become a first-time homeowner or have housing security, but you will not find that considered in Maine’s new housing act that calls for all municipalities to conduct a major overhaul of their municipal code using grants to incentivize municipalities to work with a State program.

Instead of acknowledging the direct correlation between the rise of Airbnb, and homelessness, across the globe, the …