More units stalls increases. There's pretty decent research on this.

I believe you misread that. They said 1,000 per year, for 10 years. That's 10,000 apartments, and they're saying that's a minimum (in addition to single-family home construction).

I doubt that ~10K apartments wouldn't rapidly lead to saturation of short-term rentals.

We do lack inventory. 10K apartments aren't on AirBnB. It strains credulity to believe as much. And hoarding real-estate doesn't seem likely if you can make money renting what you have.

So while places build new housing for prices to maybe fall 10 or 20 years from now, eff the people that need relief right now?

Then what happened to Boise LOL

What other companies did you get quotes from?

The issue with that is that short term measures to bring down on existing housing costs (rent control, limiting short term rentals second homes etc) discourages construction and frequently leads to landlords going condo potential driving rent up or at least availability down while also preventing the long term cost reduction that more construction brings.

Well, except I'm actually an urban planner (for over 20 years) and I actually mod the urban planning forum, but nevermind all that, right....?

I'm curious. It's why I asked the question. I don't presume to know much about Maine.

I’m going to check into him. Thank you the lead!

And, like anything, rent prices are a function of the demand and the supply. Housing is artificially scarce and often employs protectionist policies to inflate the price so it can be used as an investment vehicle for rentiers.

That's why you have cities like San Francisco with moratoriums on apartment construction or questionable zoning laws that promote suburbanization: the goal is to drive up prices and prevent competition from pushing them down.

The demand for housing is inelastic, so the supply is the main driver of the cost, since the demand side can't drive it down by not buying.

I rented a home just like this for 2 years in Garland Maine for only $800/ month for 3 bedrooms! Just gotta grab it when you find one. Just bought a house in Dexter for only 60k!

double click the thumbnail. then you can use a screen grabber .

So you are on the deep end. :)

This is on Eskutassis Pond!

I don’t think normal people ever had one like this in most places. Not another camp in sight and clearly winterized.

Most people I know with camps have one that looks more like my family’s—a seasonal, fairly rustic place in a row along a lakeshore maybe a couple hundred feet from the next one on either side. Depending on how long it’s been in their family, probably some weird story or connection about it’s origins. In our case, my great-grandfather built it himself in the 30s after inheriting a narrow strip of land from his father in law. He worked for the phone company so he did all the wiring himself and whatnot as well.

If my parents sold it, I’d probably have to go another hour or so further remote to replace it once I’m more financially stable, but it would be doable. I’d just be, like my great-grandfather or grandfather, choosing to prioritize that over other things I could do. I don’t remember my grandfather ever going on a vacation beyond visiting family and the camp, maybe something like Acadia a couple times. I’m not sure my great-grandfather ever made it farther from home in western Maine than dropping my grandfather off at Orono. A lot of people now don’t want to do that, so the camps end up getting sold to someone who has the money to hire out all the work and the places for those of us who do want to get pushed farther north.

How do armchair urban planners end up on these kind of threads?

Similar news in the paper that Bangor needs $5M invested a year for the next 10 years to rock geezer cradles. I think Northern Lights, housing groups, APRA funds can easily make investments, but the real problem are the NIMBYs that will cry over 300 dwellings a year.

Bangor has plenty of space in its core to take out worthless parking lots, empty lots, unused dollar stores, and churches, but it’ll be hard to get that zoning allowed.

The only structures really being built are those dumbass 2-family garage attached shitshacks that sit on 3 acres of land due to lack of construction talent and zoning laws.

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Maybe I don't. That's why I asked.

But historic housing prices and population growth rates would suggest otherwise, even in Portland, up until around 2019-ish.

Unlike where I'm from (Boise) which has had one of the highest growth rates over the past 20 years, even more so over the past 5, and the surge in prices reflect that. And even so we weren't dramatically under built until maybe around 2019. Certainly wasn't in most of the rest of that, which had a more flat (or declining) population and low housing prices (sub $200k) until 2020, and now most stuff is above $300k.

There's something else going on. There's no way Rupert Idaho has ubderbuilt homes over the past 20 years when people were literally leavong, population was declining, and house prices were cheap (but not now).

And I recognize you from some of the planning forums... and you're a complete ideologue about this stuff.

Not talking about minimum wage. I have ten years experience in my industry and my salary was 75% of where I used to live. Same with my wife, who has her master's degree. Our combined income barely netted us a house in southern Maine.

Thats the thing, it will happen, but not for the homeless, homes and apartments will be built to attract people to stay and move because the working population is also aging out I think, most people leave maine, even if they eventually try to come back, most people cant even come back even if they want to rn because the housing is so ridiculous even in comparison to other places that seem crazy. It wont be to save the homeless but to save the economy really, imo.

Nobody said it was terrible. In fact I made a point to say, "And I am not saying they shouldn't be." But go on and keep trying to create drama.