It is our right as citizens to decide where, what kind, and for whom publicly subsidized housing should be developed, not the planners, consultants and unelected bureaucrats who don’t live here, vote or pay taxes. If we want to build affordable housing for families and the local workforce, we can and we should because spending public funds on raising healthy kids and supporting our local economy is a good investment.
Read MoreMothers, guns and mayhem. Enough is enough.
Read MoreVoters have been dealt a bad hand by the enemies of Community Housing and we are calling their bluff. Let them defend the abandoned low-income bleak housing project on the merits. Watch them singe as Dunham Court goes down in flames.
See Community Housing rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Read MoreImagine how small one must be to steal homemade signs for refugee housing. Imagine also how small the Nimbus 2000 of outdoor mobile security camera is and how mortifying it will be when the poacher is revealed. It’s a whodunnit whopper. The banker with the website in the dining room? Professor Plum-Progressive with the chip on his shoulder in his SUV?
Read MoreA map to Community Housing in Cape Elizabeth
Read MoreAt a time when the world is at war over democracy, misinformation and looking for leadership and courage, will we rise to the call? In the face of a severe housing shortage locally and an epic refugee crisis because of the brutal invasion by Russia of Ukraine — a war over democracy — will we be silenced by a few carrying the water for Wall Street banks and real estate developers?
Read MoreThe original column published on April 8, 2022 has been updated to include references. Who is lying now?
Read More“The old saw “there hasn’t been an affordable housing project in Cape Elizabeth for 50 years” is hogwash. We haven’t had any factory farms, either and our farms are outstanding, aren’t they.”
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