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Committee advances middle-income housing support (LD 916) with pilot, sliding scale and 200% AMI option

Joint Committee on Housing and Economic Development · March 3, 2026

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Summary

The committee moved LD 916 to create a Middle Income Housing Support Program at Maine State Housing Authority, adopting sponsor and budget language that defines eligible households, adds a revolving loan fund and sliding scale, and allows program design up to 200% of area median income in some language.

Committee analysts described LD 916 as a sponsor's amendment to a concept bill establishing a Middle Income Housing Support Program and Fund at the Maine State Housing Authority to make loans or grants to cover capital costs for construction or rehabilitation for households at defined area median income (AMI) bands. The committee compared the sponsor's proposal with language in the governor's budget and discussed a revolving loan fund and sliding scale for financial assistance.

Representative Amanda Collamore moved to report the bill ought to pass as amended using the sponsor's amendment and to adopt changes discussed in the budget language (including a revolving loan fund and a sliding scale of assistance). Eric Jorgensen of Maine State Housing Authority said a 200% AMI definition is workable and that the authority could design program features within the latitude provided. After a short caucus and discussion about language and implementation, the committee voted in favor of the amended report; the clerk recorded the result as "unanimous of all those present."