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Maine Housing Releases Draft 2025-2026 QAP - Public Hearing 4/16, comments by 4/26
Please review and share feedback with Maine Housing and MAHC on the draft QAP: Click here
Redline version: Click here
DRAFT can also be found on the “Rules” page on our website - https://mainehousing.org/about/rules Public hearing on April 16, 9:30 am at Maine Housing. Written comments must be received at Maine Housing at acarson@mainehousing.org by April 26 by 5 pm.
Increased the amount of credit per unit to $30,000 from $20,000, and changed the maximum amount of credit per project to $1,200,000.
Total Development Caps have been increased
Type of Project
TDC Index Cap
Adaptive Reuse
$395,000 per unit
New construction
$370,000 per unit
Acquisition and rehabilitation of existing housing
$340,000 per unit
BABA and Maine Housing energy efficiency rules are included in Building Compliance
Applicable projects must complay with the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA), enacted as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Pub. L. 117-58 and 2 CFR 184. BABA established a domestic content procurement preference for all Federal financial assistance obligated for infrastructure projects after May 14, 2022. The domestic content procurement preference requires that all iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials used in covered infrastructure projects are produced in the United States. This requirement is known as the "Buy America Preference" (BAP). Click for more on BABA.
Acquisition Caps have been increased
Type of Project
Average Acquisition Cost
Acquisition and rehabilitation of existing housing
$60,500 per unit
New construction
$7,500 per unit
Adaptive Reuse
$10,500 per unit
NLIHC Releases The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes
NLIHC released today its annual report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes. This year’s report finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.3 million affordable and available rental homes. As a result, nearly three-quarters of renters with extremely low incomes are severely cost-burdened, spending more than half their income on rent and accounting for nearly 70% of all severely cost-burdened renters in the U.S. The report calls for greater federal investments in the preservation and expansion of the affordable housing stock, more Housing Choice Vouchers to bridge the gap between renters’ incomes and rent, and emergency assistance for renters who experience unexpected short-term financial shocks.
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SAVE THE DATE: MAHC Housing Policy Conference – Nov 13, 2024, Portland
This all day conference held every other year delves into housing and policy issues impacting addressing the need for housing in Maine and nationally. Hear from business and municipal leaders working on housing, statewide elected officials, housing policy leaders, development professionals and more. Attend to network with who’s who in Maine’s housing development world and understand the opportunities and challenges we face in the policy realm to meet Maine’s need of 80,000 new homes by 2030. With a presidential election, and a new Maine legislature starting, this is the event to understand what’s ahead for housing and how to get involved in advocacy so all Maine people have a home.
