Construction of Meadowview II Apartments in Gray began in 2024. Now complete, it provides 26 one- and two-bedroom affordable homes for Mainers aged 55+. (Photo credit: Avesta Housing)
The Bangor Daily News reported on LD 1184, which requires communities with 4,000 residents or more to report how many residential building permits and certificates of occupancy they approved, as well as how many units were demolished each year, in order to allow lawmakers to better gauge whether the state is making progress on its goal of building as many as 84,000 new units by 2030.
The Bangor Daily News reported that the Maine Office of Community Affairs offers communities technical assistance and funding to help them submit the information in order to make it easy to report, even for municipalities that are smaller and may have less staff and capacity. The information will be posted on the State of Maine Housing Data Portal.
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