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Over the past year, the State of Maine DECD, the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, and MaineHousing engaged an outside consultant to conduct a comprehensive housing needs analysis to assess the availability and affordability of housing in the state.
MaineHousing offers several programs to encourage private development of affordable rental housing for families, seniors and persons with special needs. Developers are required to ensure that housing developed with MaineHousing financing remains affordable.
Local Housing Authorities - You may also want to contact your local housing authority to see if they have other public housing available. For more information on Subsidized or Affordable Apartments please contact a Housing Referral Specialist in MaineHousing's Housing Choice Voucher Department.
For general information about rental laws including leases and evictions the Maine Attorney General’s Office may be able to help. You may also contact Pine Tree Legal if you are facing an eviction or have issues with your landlord.
MaineHousing’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program provides rental assistance to income-eligible tenants by subsidizing a portion of their monthly rent and utilities and paying it directly to their landlords.
Maine Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) Program. Are you struggling to keep up with your mortgage payments or other housing costs due to COVID-19 related financial hardships? The Maine Homeowner Assistance Fund may be able to help.
Click on a title below to expand each section and learn more about the advantages of keeping your mortgage in Maine with a mortgage from MaineHousing.
MaineHousing is an independent state agency that bridges public and private housing finance, combining them to benefit Maine’s low and moderate-income people. MaineHousing brings millions of new private and federal housing funds to invest in Maine to create safe, affordable, warm housing.
If you receive residential electric service from an electric utility and you are not living in government subsidized housing, you may be eligible for assistance with your electric bills from your electric utility’s Low Income Assistance Plan (LIAP).
The Maine platform will be the second of its kind for HEAP nationally, again making Maine and MaineHousing a leader at improving the delivery of federal heating benefits. Maine households can check their HEAP eligibility and begin the application process by visiting MaineHousing’s HEAP web page at: www.mainehousing.org/heap