Requiring a mortgage to finance a new mobile home in a park is like requiring a life preserver on a train. What’s the point of Maine being a “Title State” when it comes to manufactured homes if every bank and the state’s leading housing agency require a mortgage to finance one?
Read MoreCape Elizabeth, Maine is a beautiful coastal community of 9300 people trying to help solve the housing shortage. Community Housing -- i.e. building a neighborhood of affordable housing on public land -- is the answer, says former state senator Cynthia Dill but don't just take her word for it. Experts agree! "There could not be a better time to do this than now."
Read MoreEither the chair of the Cape Elizabeth Housing Diversity Study Committee is conflicted about the only real affordable housing proposal on the table and should not vote on it, or he is not. Enough cloak and dagger. Which is it?
Read MoreDetox is in these days. You are cordially invited. The good people of Maine deserve clean air and honorable leaders.
Read MoreGandalf the Gray of Maine journalism returns as Gandalf the White to save us and Middle Earth
Read More“If the limit never approaches anything, the limit does not exist” is a quote from the iconic coming-of-age movie Mean Girls, and one way to state succinctly the case for protecting “they” as a plural all-inclusive pronoun of the English Language. If you haven’t seen Mean Girls, think The Catcher in the Rye or any other story about an individual’s journey from the outside looking in to a place of belonging.
Read MoreWhy did Dan wait so long to privately accuse me of hate speech? Because he can’t win the argument about the local housing referendum on the merits in my opinion, but others could argue it’s because he inadvertently is a sexist pig.
Let me explain.
Read MoreThe world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II but her legacy lives on as a tome on what to do with great privilege when you have it.
Read MoreSwallowing an “affordable housing project” with a public price tag topping $13.5 million plus a TIF is like taking a malaria drug to treat COVID. Instead of paying a corporation to build, own and manage low-income housing projects for the benefit of shareholders, the public is better served investing in housing that serves the public! That’s the message sent from Cape Elizabeth to Augusta that shines through LD 2003, Maine’s exciting new housing reform law.
Read MoreDespite news reports and gossip about NIMBYism in our pretty little town, families including low-income families are getting ahead in Cape Elizabeth. That’s why everyone wants to live here.
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