Join Us On The Housing Tour
Bringing together renters, homeowners, builders, developers, municipal and business leaders, and housing advocates to listen, talk about challenges and innovative housing projects, and drive real solutions to Maine’s housing crisis.
Housing Roundtable in Bangor
Housing Roundtable in Biddeford
Housing Roundtable in Auburn
Housing Roundtable in Kittery
Housing Roundtable in Dover-Foxcroft
Housing Roundtable in Ellsworth
Housing Roundtable in Rockland
Housing Roundtable in Oxford County
Housing Happy Hour in Portland
Housing for mainers
Hannah's Record of Progress
- As Speaker of the House, Hannah fought for and delivered long-term, sustainable funding for new housing production. After leaving office, she directed a community housing organization that helped families buy their first homes, built new rental housing, and provided weatherization support.
- As director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, Hannah helped lead the fight for increased affordable housing funding and policies that have resulted in the largest pipeline of new housing in production in MaineHousing’s 50-year history. Her work help support investments in rural rental housing, affordable homeownership, resident ownership of mobile home parks, housing for veterans and seniors, homelessness prevention, and home weatherization.
- She also led the team that identified the need for 84,000 new housing units in Maine by 2030, just to meet the needs of Mainers and our workforce, and the “Roadmap for Housing Production” that provided concrete solutions to accelerate the progress of much needed new housing.
- Hannah didn’t just talk about ideas; she put real dollars into real projects that changed lives. Eighteen affordable apartments in Madison, built with modular construction through the Rural Affordable Rental Housing Program. Blueberry Fields Cooperative in Brunswick, which became the largest resident-owned mobile home community in Maine with support from the Mobile Home Park Preservation and Assistance Fund. Or Main View Apartments in Orono, where we extended affordability restrictions for another 20 years for low-income seniors, because of the State Affordable Housing Tax Credit that she helped pass in 2020.
- Much more is needed to solve this crisis – join Hannah to share your ideas and your housing story!
Updates from our housing tour
THE RISING TIDE
Pingree housing plan calls for homebuyer incentives, more trade training
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree brought her statewide listening tour on housing issues to Deer Isle Oct. 10 and said that if Maine does not improve the affordability and supply of housing, then “a lot of the other things we want”–such as good schools, a healthy economy and a high quality of life–“are not going to be possible.”
Pingree proposes more state funding for workforce housing initiatives, more robust financial support for first-time home buyers, increased training programs for young people seeking construction trade careers, and tax credits for lumber companies supplying building materials for affordable housing, Pingree said.
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Maine Morning Star
Hannah Pingree says next governor must make affordable housing a ‘top issue’
At her first campaign event focused on affordable housing, Democratic candidate Hannah Pingree said making it accessible to more Mainers needs to be a top issue for whoever becomes the state’s next governor.
Joined by municipal and state housing leaders at the Bangor Public Library Tuesday, the former head of Gov. Janet Mills’ Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) and speaker of the Maine House of Representatives highlighted the progress Maine has already made, but said “there is a lot more work to be done.”
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Bangor Daily News
I want to hear your housing story
Hannah Pingree is a former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and former director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future. She is a Democratic candidate for governor.
Housing is not just another policy challenge. It’s the issue that touches every corner of our state. The housing crisis is threatening our economy and impacting the lives of thousands of Maine people. And if we don’t tackle it with urgency and scale, we risk losing the very fabric of our communities.
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foxbangor
Democratic gubenatorial candidate Hannah Pingree to hold listening sessions on housing
BANGOR — In tandem with the housing conference in Bangor, Democratic candidate for governor, Hannah Pingree, held a listening session in the city to gain more insight into housing challenges.
She says in speaking with Mainers, housing is a top concern for people, whether it’s residents, business owners, or leaders. Pingree says Tuesday’s session is the first of several listening sessions to come on housing
