Maine housing and borrowing

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Address homelessness among Maine children and their families through expanded supports to schools and family housing programs.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Expand programs for middle-income housing, first-time homebuyers, and the infrastructure support required to develop new housing.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Reduce sprawl and encourage housing development in downtowns and near schools, workplaces, and services.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Hannah knows that Maine’s natural lands, waters, and natural resource economies are the foundation of who we are — and our greatest strength for the future. As governor, she’ll protect these resources, strengthen rural communities, and ensure conservation, housing, and economic growth go hand in hand. As a lifelong champion of Land for Maine’s Future, Hannah will expand investments in working lands, waterfronts, and farms to strengthen local economies and protect these natural lands for future generations.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Reduce the regulatory barriers which slow new housing development and increase costs.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Invest in Opportunity for Rural Maine: Direct targeted resources to communities that have been left behind to rebuild infrastructure, housing, and downtowns while launching partnerships that strengthen key industries like agriculture, fishing, and outdoor recreation. Attract private investment to help communities thrive and ensure reliable broadband and cell service to support that growth and connect more Mainers to opportunity.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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We need to grow and protect our housing stock so people who live and work in Maine can afford a stable home and our communities and economy can thrive.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Deepen the Property Tax Fairness Credit: The Property Tax Fairness Credit helps low- and moderate-income homeowners and renters, but too many struggling households are left out or underserved. Hannah will expand eligibility so more households qualify and increase the maximum benefit to reflect today’s property tax burden. She will also simplify the application to increase participation, especially among seniors and renters.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Launch the Rural Opportunities & Growth Partnership to work with communities to drive targeted investments that create new, locally-driven economic opportunities—from downtown revitalization to growth in agriculture, forest products, marine industries, and outdoor recreation. Strengthen public-private partnerships, while expanding support for infrastructure, housing, and local business development.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Establish Regional Housing Hubs across Maine to support efforts to meet regional housing goals and provide technical and planning support to local planners, code enforcement, and infrastructure needs to help get projects approved and built efficiently.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Lower the barriers that hold back wages and workforce participation: Tackling the rising costs of child care, housing, transportation, and health care—so workers can take better jobs, increase their hours, and fully participate in the economy without being priced out of opportunity.

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Source topic or question: Housing affordability

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Hold private equity groups and large out-of-state corporate landlords accountable with stronger tenant protections and increased oversight.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Support local implementation of new ordinances and zoning reforms that increase density and encourage smart growth, support housing production, and meet housing goals.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Ensure Mainers Can Find Housing They Can Afford

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Require time limits for local housing approvals and appeals, and create fast-track state legal processes to get to quicker decision making and faster conflict resolution.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Support innovative industries and business growth among manufacturers that produce building materials in Maine for the housing sector.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Expand training and re-employment support for unemployed and underemployed Mainers, while directly addressing the obstacles that hold people back—health care costs, transportation, housing, and lack of child care.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Accelerate Permit Approvals, Cut Red Tape, and Reduce Barriers to New Housing: Streamline and simplify state and local permit approvals and support land use reforms that allow homes to be built faster, smarter, and more predictably.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Support Rural and Coastal Economies: Grow rural and coastal economies, especially in our heritage forestry, farming and fishing industries, by pairing climate and conservation investments with housing, job training, and local business support so communities can succeed now and in the future.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Incentivize the use of modular, panelized, and other innovative construction methods and products, especially from Maine, to reduce costs, grow Maine’s economy and deliver housing more rapidly.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Provide consistent funding for affordable housing: Invest $100 million per year investment in housing development, first-time homebuyer programs, and redevelopment to create more housing Mainers can afford. Take common sense approaches to increase housing supply: Accelerate permit approvals, cut red tape, and reduce barriers to new housing by streamlining and simplifying state and local permit approvals and support land use reforms that allow homes to be built faster, smarter, and more predictably. Take on Private Equity and Corporate Greed: Stop out-of-state corporations from displacing families from existing homes and driving up rents. From mobile home parks to apartments, we urgently need to protect the homes that are affordable now. Read Hannah’s full Housing Affordability Plan here.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Deploy diverse programs to meet diverse needs across the state, like the rural rental program, allowing multiple project scales, historic building re-use, and the ability to meet urgent housing needs.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Grow the Workforce and Industries that Build Our Homes: Invest in apprenticeships, training programs, business supports, and tuition-free community college to ensure Maine has the skilled workers, materials , and businesses to build the housing we need.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Hannah Pingree believes there’s more to be done for Maine people. As Governor, she will take immediate, practical steps to lower costs for Maine people. That means tackling housing and energy bills, making health care and childcare accessible, and restructuring Maine’s tax system so the wealthiest pay their fair share and working families can afford their property taxes.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Expand Land Conservation: Strengthen the Land for Maine’s Future program and establish a permanent funding source to protect working and recreational lands, farms, and waterfronts while supporting housing and sustainable economic opportunities.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Lowering the cost of housing and energy is not enough if families cannot afford health care, childcare or food. Hannah’s plan addresses all three as essentials, not extras.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Utilize targeted incentive funds to ensure aging public housing and other types of available affordable housing isn’t lost from the state’s housing stock.

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Source topic or question: National security, foreign policy, and veterans

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End veteran homelessness in her first year in office.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Property taxes have risen faster than incomes, making it harder for homeowners, renters, and communities to keep up. Hannah will deliver meaningful property tax relief for Maine families while addressing the structural causes of rising municipal tax rates.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Expand Maine service and opportunity programs that employ young people in projects that strengthen their communities—like municipal government, education and health, housing, environment, and local needs.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Invest $100 Million a Year in Housing: Provide consistent funding for the development and preservation of homes across Maine that are affordable and attainable.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Partner with municipalities, businesses, non-profits, philanthropy, and land trusts to match state funds with local funds or donated land for housing, leveraging greater development dollars and helping to increase community support for projects.

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Source topic or question: Public safety and criminal justice

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Reduce Evictions and Address Rising Homelessness in Maine: Expand permanent housing solutions for Maine’s most vulnerable residents and invest in efforts to help households avoid evictions.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Protect and expand Maine’s mobile home parks and affordable housing through greater support for resident ownership, co-ops, and community housing trusts and preventing further sales to out-of-state investors.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Provide technical assistance and capacity-building to help nonprofits, municipalities, and developers deliver housing projects efficiently.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Strengthen fair housing protections in partnership with the Office of Maine’s Attorney General and go after predatory companies that exploit tenants and fail to meet health and safety standards.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Boost the Homestead Exemption: Maine’s homestead exemption has not kept pace with rising property values. Hannah will double the exemption to provide immediate relief to all Maine resident homeowners.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Communities that have been overlooked are not lacking in potential but they often lack the partners and infrastructure to support new opportunities. Hannah will change that by directing targeted resources to the places that need them most, supporting locally driven solutions, and ensuring rural communities have the tools to grow, attract families and businesses, and build lasting economic opportunities. This means investing in infrastructure, housing, small businesses and downtowns—so every part of Maine can thrive.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Grow the Office of Community Affairs: Expand the one-stop planning resource Hannah helped launch, ensuring cities, towns, and tribal governments have direct access to state support for housing, infrastructure needs, resilience, and emergency planning.

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Source topic or question: Public safety and criminal justice

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Implement regional homelessness hubs, in partnership with municipal and regional governments and non-profit providers, to reduce homelessness in every county of the state in ways that meet diverse geographic needs.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Generally speaking, Maine needs to spend more public monies helping people who need help. This money will largely come from shifting existing tax revenues to housing and homeless programs, increasing tax contributions from the wealthy, operating government more efficiently and effectively, eliminating special interest tax exemptions, and carefully identifying and decreasing waste, fraud and abuse of public funds and programs.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Our nation is in trouble. Maine is in trouble. Children are dying needlessly of abuse and neglect. Thousands of Mainers are homeless while rent and home prices are skyrocketing. The rich are getting richer while the rest of us are having to fight over the crumbs. Maine's precious environment is being attacked while our state government encourages its destruction. Maine's government is being both inefficient and ineffective without accountability for its actions and inactions. Nothing is being done to reform a rigged system that continues putting those in government and the favored special interests ahead of the people. I want to be your governor because I believe I am the best and most qualified person for the job. I worked in Maine state government for nearly three decades, most of that time in the Executive Branch with the Department of Environmental Protection. I have a B.S. in Economics and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. I ran for the Maine legislature twice and for governor once. I know how government is supposed to work. This is precisely why the politicians in Augusta are fighting to keep me from being elected. Positive change will not come from within this rigged system and those who benefit from it. It must come from outside the system -- from the people. I will listen to you -- not the lobbyists. I will always act on behalf of the public interest -- not the special interests. I will involve you and ask for your help and guidance. I believe in democracy and I will do my best to bring democracy to Maine's government. As an independent governor, I will owe allegiance to no party. We are a deeply polarized state and nation -- the product of power hungry politicians. I will put people first and work to bridge the ideological divides that separate us. Party labels cause too many of us to fail or refuse to see others viewpoints. If we are to survive, we must stop tearing each other down and start building each other up. Mainers are good people. As governor, I pledge to do my best to find common ground and to work with everyone to make Maine the best it can be.

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Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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I support short-term solutions for the homeless such as constructing so-called pallet shelter villages until they can get their lives in order https://palletshelter.com/build-a-village/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT0_HQrtklA I also support expanding Maine’s Housing First program https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/22/title22sec20-A.html .

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Taking on Our Housing Crisis

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#2. Provide direct mortgage support to make monthly payments affordable With the cost of the average Maine home in the $400,000s, too many Mainers can’t afford their monthly payments. I hear it time and time again – the cost is just too high for a family budget. As Governor, I will launch a Direct Mortgage Support program that helps families cover part of their monthly mortgage payment in exchange for a fair, capped share of future appreciation when they sell the home - giving your family more breathing room each month.

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Source topic or question: Maine's Economic Future — Protecting Maine’s Heritage Industries

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#3. Grow the forest products industry Maine's forests are one of our greatest economic strengths, but we need to do more with them here at home. As Governor, I will support mass timber, strengthen research and product development, and connect the forest economy to housing, manufacturing, and good jobs.

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Taking on Our Housing Crisis

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#2. Provide direct mortgage support to make monthly payments affordable

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Source topic or question: #3. Expand housing supply by reviving our factory-built housing industry and by repairing the homes we have

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We need 80,000 homes in Maine now, just to meet demand. And too many of our homes are rundown and need repair. This is a supply crisis that needs real solutions and answers. As Governor, I will deploy a targeted housing bond to restart Maine’s factory-built housing industry, expand the housing workforce, and repair our existing homes so more families can afford to stay and build a future.

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Taking on Our Housing Crisis

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#3. Expand housing supply by reviving our factory-built housing industry and by repairing the homes we have We need 80,000 homes in Maine now, just to meet demand. And too many of our homes are rundown and need repair. This is a supply crisis that needs real solutions and answers. As Governor, I will deploy a targeted housing bond to restart Maine’s factory-built housing industry, expand the housing workforce, and repair our existing homes so more families can afford to stay and build a future.

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Source topic or question: #2. Provide direct mortgage support to make monthly payments affordable

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With the cost of the average Maine home in the $400,000s, too many Mainers can’t afford their monthly payments. I hear it time and time again – the cost is just too high for a family budget. As Governor, I will launch a Direct Mortgage Support program that helps families cover part of their monthly mortgage payment in exchange for a fair, capped share of future appreciation when they sell the home - giving your family more breathing room each month.

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Taking on Our Housing Crisis

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#4. Approve housing projects faster through a statewide housing bottleneck audit

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Taking on Our Housing Crisis

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#3. Expand housing supply by reviving our factory-built housing industry and by repairing the homes we have

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Source topic or question: CUT THE COSTS CRUSHING MAINE FAMILIES

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As Governor, my commitment is to you, your family and the future of our state. I will be relentlessly focused on delivering results - from housing, taxes, energy, health care, and child care to the basic job of making government work for you.. I am laying out exactly what I will do as Governor to cut costs, lower your bills, and grow economic opportunity.

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Source topic or question: Maine's Economic Future — Protecting Maine’s Heritage Industries

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Maine's forests are one of our greatest economic strengths, but we need to do more with them here at home. As Governor, I will support mass timber, strengthen research and product development, and connect the forest economy to housing, manufacturing, and good jobs.

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Fairer Tax System & Spending Accountability

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Too many Mainers are looking across our state lines for cheaper taxes. You should not be taxed out of your home. As Governor, I will expand property tax relief for Maine homeowners through stronger income-sensitive protections and an expanded homestead exemption

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Source topic or question: #4. Approve housing projects faster through a statewide housing bottleneck audit

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Projects are being delayed, and government dysfunction is making families wait too long to get into their homes. It is time to end the dysfunction because we are tired of waiting and cannot afford more delay. As Governor, I will launch a statewide audit to identify where lawful housing projects get stuck and how we can fix delays through better coordination between state and local permitting processes.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Housing, property taxes, and cost of living

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Prices are rising fast, and thanks to the tariffs and the War in Iran, they’re not coming down. The Trump Tariffs are hitting families hard, and the uncertainty that follows is forcing people to change their plans. They’re not purchasing new vehicles or expanding businesses. Trump’s tariffs are even changing how folks shop for groceries and making heating your own home unaffordable. And the War in Iran has kept gas prices sky high all year long. In Congress, I’ll fight for universal childcare, good-paying jobs, and a surge in affordable housing to help our neighbors manage a middle-class life again. And I’ll fight to lift Trump’s blanket tariffs and end his war of choice so families can afford to live in Maine.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 17, 2026