Hannah Pingree

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Ensure Mainers Can Find Housing They Can Afford

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Raising wages is not just about fairness, it is about strengthening Maine’s entire economy. When workers earn more, families are more stable, businesses retain talent, and communities grow stronger. America has seen growing wealth inequality, partially due to stagnating wages. Hannah’s plan focuses on raising wages by expanding skills, improving job quality, strengthening worker bargaining power, and growing good-paying jobs.

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Launch a public health insurance option: Create a state-backed plan that puts patients before profits. One that doesn’t replace existing coverage, but adds an affordable alternative that consumers can choose and businesses can offer workers. Developed with state leaders and residents, it will answer to the people of Maine, not corporate shareholders, and help counter skyrocketing premiums caused by Republican attacks on the ACA.

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Invest in Maine’s workforce and raise wages through skills and training: Expanding apprenticeships and career pathways, education opportunities, and hands-on training in high-demand fields so workers can move into better-paying jobs and advance over time.

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Lower Energy Bills for All Mainers

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Prevention saves money: The least expensive health care is the care that catches problems early. Hannah will expand access to primary care in rural and underserved communities, and strengthen maternity and reproductive health services so Maine families get the support they need at every stage of life — reducing long-term costs for families and the health care system alike. Read Hannah’s full Health Care for Maine plan here.

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Build an economy that rewards work, not just wealth: Strengthening labor protections and bargaining power so workers have a real voice on the job—and ensure more Mainers can access stable careers and opportunity even as rapid changes like artificial intelligence and global economic shifts reshape the future of work.

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Partner with Communities to Deliver Relief: Lasting relief requires real partnership between the state and municipalities. Hannah will give municipalities new local revenue options so they are less dependent on residential property taxes to fund essential services, support regional service sharing in areas like public safety and public works, planning and code enforcement, and solid waste to reduce costs for taxpayers, and she’ll maintain the state’s share of K-12 education funding to reduce pressure on local property tax bills.

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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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Promote the importance and value of construction careers as high-demand, valued jobs to Maine students and other job seekers and highlight the important role these industries plan in building homes for Mainers.

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End veteran homelessness in her first year in office.

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Protects our natural resources to enable a strong, sustainable economy

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Create a State Resilience Bank and Invest in Community Infrastructure: Establish financing tools to fund urgently needed infrastructure and prioritize projects for rural, working, and low-income communities. Continue to invest in successful programs like the Community Resilience Partnership to help towns prepare for flooding, storms, and rising seas with locally-driven solutions.

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Invest in Emergency Management & Public Health: Strengthen state and local capacity to protect vulnerable populations during acute crises like heatwaves, storms, and public health emergencies and chronic health challenges like asthma and tick-borne illnesses – especially for our seniors and people with disabilities.

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Investing in modernization and product innovation across food, forestry, and the blue economy—helping businesses upgrade equipment, adopt new technologies, improve efficiency, and develop higher-value products that reduce reliance on volatile commodity markets.

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Growing markets for Maine-made, value-added products by partnering with businesses to expand access to regional, national, and international markets—promoting sustainable, high-quality food, forest, and ocean products that strengthen Maine’s brand and command premium prices.

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Support local entrepreneurship and investment by expanding community-based business programs in underserved areas and ensuring rural communities receive a majority share of Opportunity Zone designations to attract private capital.

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Hold the System Accountable: Maine can do more to reduce price gouging, profit skimming, and unnecessary complexity and barriers to coverage and care. Hannah’s plan will: Crack down on corporate and private equity buy-outs of health facilities that lead to loss of critical services, gaps in underserved areas, and higher prices; Demand more from health insurers, health systems, and corporations that receive Maine taxpayer dollars or tax breaks, including strong efforts to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in the system; Make prescription drugs more affordable for Maine families by lowering out of pocket costs and protecting patients from unfair and unpredictable price increases. Reduce drug costs by expanding bulk and multi-state purchasing agreements, increasing transparency around drug pricing and rebates, and pursue state-level authority to limit excessive price hikes on essential medications. Leverage the negotiating power of state government, Maine’s largest employer, to reduce prescription drug prices for State workers by capping prices based on Medicare negotiation and other rates and support other large employers to do the same; Reduce paperwork and place limits on prior authorization that put distance between patients and their doctors and waste time and money for both; and Improve the process to enroll in MaineCare and CoverME.gov to maintain the gains Maine has made in getting people covered.

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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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For too long, Maine’s tax system has asked more of those who can afford it least, while too many working families struggle to keep up with rising costs. Hannah will rebalance the system so that work is rewarded, wealth is taxed fairly, and middle- and low-income Mainers get real, lasting relief.

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Make prescription drugs more affordable: Lower out-of-pocket costs through expanded bulk and multi-state purchasing, greater pricing transparency, and state authority to limit excessive price hikes on essential medications. Use the state’s purchasing power as Maine’s largest employer to cap drug prices for state workers based on Medicare rates, and support other large employers to do the same.

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Strengthen the child care workforce: Sustain and grow the successful child care wage supplement program, supporting livable wages to recruit and retain early childhood educators. Expand career and technical education, registered apprenticeship programs, and higher education pathways into the field.

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Lower Bills by Holding Utilities Accountable: Tie utility profits to lower bills, better performance, and customer satisfaction. Require the PUC to penalize poor service, reject unjustified rate hikes, and demand fair, transparent budgets that put Maine people over profits — including holding CMP, Versant Power, and their corporate parent Avangrid accountable. Drive down electricity costs: Direct the PUC to use every available tool to reduce bills — incentivizing utilities when rates go down, not up; facilitating electrification and efficiency; maximizing use of existing grid infrastructure; and ensuring modernization investments use the lowest-cost financing available. Target relief for low- and moderate-income households: Expand heat pump, home efficiency, heating assistance, and community solar programs so the benefits of clean energy reach every Mainer and lower costs for all households, especially those who need it most. Read Hannah’s full Energy and Climate Plan here.

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Health Care Workforce: Across rural Maine, an aging health workforce is reducing access to primary, maternity, behavioral health, and reproductive care. This is both a health care crisis and a barrier to attracting families and supporting rural economic growth. Hannah will expand the rural health workforce through training pipelines, partnering with employers to upskill and retain workers, and helping providers practice at the top of their license. She will also modernize care delivery by expanding telehealth, support the use of digital tools to reduce administrative burden on clinicians, and encourage more rural innovations like the rural paramedics who also support home-care visits. Innovation can help expand access, improve care, and help stabilize rural health systems across Maine.

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Mainers deserve clean, reliable, and affordable power, not endless rate hikes and excuses. Hannah will hold utilities accountable and put Maine people — not corporate profits — first. She will expand homegrown clean energy, and make sure the transition to a clean economy lowers costs for families and businesses while creating good-paying jobs for Maine workers. She’ll protect Maine ratepayers from reckless AI data centers that threaten to drive up costs for our communities. Electricity is a basic necessity, not a luxury — and Hannah will make sure Mainers can count on reliable, affordable and increasingly cleaner power for their homes and businesses.

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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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Build on the successful launch of the Home for Good program to house the chronically homeless with wrap-around support by fully implementing the program.

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Strengthen industry-led partnerships with research institutions to accelerate commercialization—helping move innovations from the lab to the marketplace and supporting the growth of Maine-based companies and good-paying jobs.

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Invest in Clean Water Infrastructure and Safeguard Water Quality: Upgrade aging wastewater, stormwater, and drinking water systems — prioritizing rural, low-income and other under-resourced communities. Expand monitoring of wells, lakes, and rivers for contamination and support aquifer protection and lead pipe replacement projects statewide.

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Streamlining state systems and permitting to ensure new business start-ups in these sectors don’t get bogged down in state bureaucracy.

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Create a true one-stop shop for small businesses and cut unnecessary red tape so entrepreneurs can handle permits, licensing, financing resources, and technical assistance in one place—without getting bounced between agencies or buried in paperwork.

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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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Ensure Childcare is Affordable for Working Families: Increase funding for the Child Care Affordability Program so every income-eligible family can access help — eliminating the current waitlist that leaves hundreds of families out of luck, with a particular focus on infant and toddler care which is often hardest to find and afford.

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Lower health care costs for small businesses by giving them access to the same high-quality, cost-saving tools used by the state and larger employers—including preventative health programs, virtual physical therapy, and virtual urgent care reduce health costs and keep workers healthy.

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Ensure free school meals for all children: Ensure state funding to feed over 115,000 public school students daily during the school year, saving families approximately $160 per month, and supporting attendance and learning.

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Delivers clean energy solutions that lower costs for families

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From upending the public health system to attacking reproductive health care to cutting Medicaid and tax credits that lower premiums, Washington’s actions are harming Maine families. Congress must reform the health system – we need universal and affordable care for all Americans. But states can’t wait for Washington. Hannah Pingree will partner with other strong governors to pursue solutions while using the power of state government to start fixing what’s broken and putting patients first.

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Enforce Guardrails Against AI Data Center Impacts & Costs: Speculative, power-hungry data center projects are looming across the country, and too often households are left paying the price – through higher electricity bills. Maine must enact a moratorium until we can ensure any new data centers pay their own way up front, offer benefits to host communities, and do not jeopardize the environment, health and wellbeing of their neighbors.

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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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Creating a pre-permitting economic development program to help get potential investment sites ready to attract job-creating employers with a focus on former mill and manufacturing sites, historic buildings and zones designated by communities for business growth.

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Work with private partners to build new infrastructure to expand coverage and make use of the State of Maine’s existing land, fiber assets and towers.

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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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Expand access to child care: Provide technical and financial assistance to help existing programs grow and new programs open, especially for infant and toddler care, including slots with evening hours to help support parents who do shift work.

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Hannah believes that every Mainer should have a provider who cares about their health and our state should be a place where we can start a family, support our loved ones, and age with dignity in the communities we call home.

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Hannah will guarantee that every young Mainer, by age 20, has access to a meaningful, hands-on work experience—whether that’s an internship, paid job placement, for-credit work experience, pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, or a similar opportunity. No young person should enter adulthood without a real pathway into the workforce and a foothold in Maine’s economy.

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Leads the nation on climate action and resilience

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Care Where and When We Need It: Incentivize and expand primary, maternity, and reproductive health care, foster new models that make the most of our health care professionals, and continue improving access to mental health and substance use care, especially in rural Maine.

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Ensure workers benefit from economic and technological change, including AI and automation, by encouraging shared productivity gains through wages, training, and job quality improvements

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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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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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Maine has taken an important step forward with the new millionaire’s tax. Hannah will build on that progress by launching a thoughtful, transparent process to evaluate additional ways to make Maine’s tax system more progressive — ensuring those at the top pay their fair share, rewarding work, seeking opportunities to export tax burden to visitors and non-residents, and reducing the burden on working and middle class Mainers.

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Coverage We Can Afford: Create a public health insurance option that answers to Maine people instead of corporations, increase accountability for health care players, and reduce wasteful complexity across the system.

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Expand paid internships and work-based learning in partnership with Maine employers, unions, and higher education institutions to ensure more young people gain real-world experience before graduating.

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Hold Utilities Accountable: Tie utility profits to lower bills, better performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction — and require the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to penalize poor service and reject unjustified rate hikes. Oppose excessive rate hikes from CMP and Versant Power, hold corporate parents like Avangrid accountable for service failures, profiteering, and demand fair, transparent utility budgets that prioritize Maine people over profits.

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Establish a Workers Council on AI to give workers a real voice in how emerging technologies are adopted in the workplace—ensuring transparency, fairness, and shared decision-making as jobs evolve.

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Ensure seamless, high-speed wireless coverage across the state’s most vital arteries – including I-95, Route 1, and key regional routes — to improve public safety and eliminate dangerous dead zones.

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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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Protect access to vital food programs: The federal Supplemental Nutrition Access Program (SNAP) is the strongest anti-hunger program in America, putting food on the table for working families, older adults, and people with disabilities. The Trump Administration is undermining SNAP with cuts and red tape to push eligible households out. Hannah will fight back by streamlining enrollment, ensuring every eligible Mainer doesn’t lose access, and helping children and seniors get the food they need.

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Launch a Public Health Insurance Option: As Governor, Hannah will create a public health insurance option: a State-backed plan that puts patients before profits. This plan won’t replace any other forms of insurance, but it will add a new affordable, reliable alternative that consumers can choose and businesses can offer to their workers. Hannah’s plan, developed in partnership with state leaders and residents, will answer to the people of Maine, not corporate shareholders, and help offset the skyrocketing premiums resulting from Republicans’ attack on the Affordable Care Act.

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Strengthen student loan repayment and retention incentives for graduates who choose to live and work in Maine, helping reduce debt while building long-term career pathways in the state.

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Deliver 100% Clean Energy: Deliver 100% clean energy by 2040, reducing reliance on costly imported fossil fuels, investing in responsibly sited clean energy that benefits communities, and using regular competitive auctions to rapidly deploy local solar, wind, and energy storage that lowers costs for Maine people and businesses. Maine must pursue a “least cost” electricity supply through reform and modernization of the standard offer and other procurement processes.

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Increase sustained research and development funding through targeted innovation funding and bonds that support priority sectors and strengthen collaboration between the Maine Technology Institute, public universities, and industry partners.

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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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Shore up state and local food programs: Support state and local food initiatives and nutrition programs making fresh local foods more affordable and accessible. Bolster support for local food pantries, community based options and other targeted programs, like Meals on Wheels for seniors and weekend back-pack programs for kids, providing essential connection to food and other resources.

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Continue to expand access to mental health care by integrating primary and mental health care, increasing certified community clinics, fully staffing crisis hotlines, establishing crisis receiving centers to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations or incarceration, and deploying mobile crisis teams that provide urgent care directly in homes and communities; and

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Expand apprenticeships and industry partnerships in high-demand sectors by working directly with unions and employers to create paid, hands-on training pathways in fields like health care, construction, advanced manufacturing, and the marine economy—ensuring workers can earn while they learn and businesses can fill critical workforce gaps.

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Modernize Clean Energy Permitting: Remove unnecessary red tape and reform outdated processes to get more clean energy built and connected faster to lower electricity costs, while ensuring community benefits.

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Clean Technology and Energy: Maine’s clean energy economy is already the fastest growing in New England. Hannah will reinvigorate Maine’s leadership in next-generation clean tech, investing in technologies that can lower energy costs and grow new jobs and the institutions and businesses driving adoption of these technologies.

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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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Invest in 1000 construction pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships with companies, unions, and other training institutions and employers to increase the number of workers in all the construction trades.

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Support a strong network of substance use recovery community centers, recovery coaches, peer-support training, and resources like community liaisons to continue Maine’s progress in saving lives from substance use.

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Strengthen career and technical education (CTE) in middle and high schools by modernizing programs, expanding access in rural communities, and aligning coursework with real-world skills so students graduate with clear pathways to good-paying jobs or further education.

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Invest in the Clean Energy Workforce: Grow programs that create pathways to good-paying green jobs, expand apprenticeships and training opportunities, and open up clean energy careers to more Mainers.

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Complete the work of historic federal and state broadband investments in fiber and satellite broadband, and ensure that every Mainers has the tools and training to use the internet safely and confidently to improve their health, education and livelihood.

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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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Increase support for small businesses in the trades and construction industries, so they can grow their businesses to scale to meet the need.

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While the federal government has touted a $50 billion investment in rural health, the program limits direct provider payments to 15% of each state’s award, with the rest required to support broader transformation efforts, including technology, infrastructure, workforce development and new care models. Hannah will press Maine’s congressional delegation and federal health officials to lift that cap, and make the case directly that this urgently needed flexibility would allow Maine to support the doctors, midwives, and nurses hospitals actually need to keep Maine’s struggling rural birthing units operating and staffed.

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Boost tuition assistance and loan repayment for critical workforce needs by expanding support for students and workers entering high-need fields—such as health care, education, and skilled trades—with targeted incentives for those who serve in rural and underserved communities.

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Target support to Moderate and Low-Income Households: Expand heat pump, energy efficiency, and local solar programs that reduce costs and ensure the benefits of clean energy reach every Mainer.

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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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Hannah’s economic agenda is built on a simple and optimistic vision: every child in Maine should have a fair shot at a good life, and every worker should be able to earn wages that actually keep up with the cost of living—no matter where they live. That means building an economy that works for everyone—not just the wealthiest or most powerful. An economy that grows good-paying jobs worth staying for, lifts wages, strengthens Maine’s competitive edge, and gives every community the tools to shape its own future.

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Get honest answers on why units are closing — whether decisions are driven by safety, staffing or by economics alone — and what that means for the next hospital facing the same choice.

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Increase investment in the Maine State Grant Program to make higher education more accessible and affordable, helping more Maine students attend and complete college without taking on unsustainable debt.

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Maine can’t wait for Washington to act — and under Hannah Pingree’s leadership, we won’t. Hannah believes the fight against climate change starts in our communities. As governor, she will invest in local climate solutions and ensure Maine remains a national model for climate action, storm preparedness and recovery, and community resilience. Her leadership means action on the ground and Mainers can count on stronger infrastructure, lower costs, healthier communities, and a future built to withstand the storms ahead.

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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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While Maine must continue to attract new workers from outside the state, our greatest opportunity is right here at home. That means investing in the people who are already here—strengthening skills, expanding opportunity, and supporting workers through transitions—so they can succeed in a changing economy. It also means giving young people a clear message: you don’t have to leave Maine to build a good life.

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Ensure support to the units that have stayed open, so today’s survivors aren’t tomorrow’s closures.

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Expand pathways into union and registered apprenticeship programs to give more Mainers access to stable, middle-class jobs

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Hold Polluters Accountable: Champion a Maine Climate Superfund Act so fossil fuel companies pay for the damages they caused, not Maine taxpayers. Require full manufacturer disclosure and responsibility for cleanup of toxic PFAS, continuing Hannah’s long record of protecting public health and holding chemical companies accountable.

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Require Second Homes to Pay Their Fair Share: Hannah will adjust property tax law to allow municipalities to tax second homes owned by non-Maine residents at higher rates, ensuring seasonal and investment properties support the infrastructure and services they rely on and reducing the burden on Mainers.

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Protect the right to organize and collectively bargain so workers can negotiate for fair wages, benefits, and working conditions without fear or retaliation

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Create innovation funds for workforce training providers to develop faster, more flexible, and more accessible learning models—so Mainers can gain in-demand skills through short-term credentials, online programs, and community-based training, no matter where they live.

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By partnering with unions, employers, and education institutions, Hannah will expand access to ongoing education and training that matches the jobs driving Maine’s economy today and tomorrow. These programs will promote flexible, hands-on learning for workers at all stages, prioritizing credentials, apprenticeships, and real-world experience in key sectors like construction, health care, manufacturing, and clean energy.

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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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Improve enforcement of labor standards to ensure wage and hour laws, workplace safety rules, and benefit protections are consistently upheld across all industries

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Expand language support for new English speakers by expanding and standardizing access to English language learning across regions and embracing new tools and technologies that can significantly accelerate language acquisition and workforce integration.

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Create a State Resilience Bank to finance critical infrastructure and prioritize projects in rural and underserved communities. Expand the Community Resilience Partnership and invest in working waterfronts to help towns prepare for flooding, storms, and climate impacts with locally driven solutions.

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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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Modernize Maine’s unemployment and benefits systems so they keep pace with a rapidly changing economy. Support should be more responsive, and better aligned with retraining and re-employment—so workers can transition into new opportunities easily without losing stability.

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Strengthen partnerships between employers, unions, and higher education to align training with real workforce needs and job quality standards—ensuring Maine workers are prepared for emerging industries without being left behind by rapid technological change.

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Tackle environmental threats to healthy communities like tick-borne diseases, toxins like PFAS, poor air quality, and improve our responses to extreme heat and storm events.

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

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Expand job training tax credits to reward businesses that invest in upskilling their employees rather than replacing them with automation—extending Dirigo tax credits to every industry sector to support a more resilient, future-ready workforce.

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Promote healthy families by giving parents the tools and services to grow and thrive, manage stress and encourage connection through access to local systems of support like school-based health services and mental health care treatment; and

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Invest state funds wisely to increase the total number of homes produced each year and better leverage private sector and community support.

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Supporting succession planning and next-generation ownership by expanding technical assistance, financing and land acquisition tools (like Land for Future for working farmland), and tax incentives that help family businesses transition successfully—keeping working lands, waterfronts, and natural resource enterprises in Maine hands.

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

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Expand and modernize the Seed Capital Tax Credit to attract more early-stage investment into Maine startups—making it easier for entrepreneurs to launch and scale companies in emerging industries.

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Commit $100 million a year to finance new construction and preservation of much-need housing across Maine.

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Expand access to patient, long-term capital by partnering with community banks and regional investors to support business growth in key sectors—ensuring companies can scale without leaving the state.

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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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Hannah knows what it feels like to navigate overly complicated state systems. She knows the frustration of regulations that were not designed with a small business owner in mind. Hannah has run a small business, contending with state permitting and bureaucracy, and she spent years trying to navigate antiquated systems from inside state government. As governor, she knows we need to do better and she is going to create a modern, predictable state government that works for small businesses.

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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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Small businesses power Maine’s economy and it needs to be easier to start a business in Maine and manage regular state interactions, from tax filings to license applications. We need to modernize state systems, emphasize a one-stop approach, and speed up state approvals.

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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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Build out small business and entrepreneurship hubs that provide hands-on help to start and grow businesses—especially in rural communities—so Mainers can find support for growing their business closer to home.

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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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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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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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Support efforts to level the playing field for Maine entities to better compete with out-of-state corporations for the purchase of residential properties on the market in targeted communities.

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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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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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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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Provide state support for model ordinances and zoning updates, as well as provide sample pre-approved building designs to support allowable building types like ADU’s and small multi-unit buildings to be built by right.

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Support adjustments to state building codes to simplify construction, while ensuring efficiency and safety.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.