About Maine Affordable Housing Coalition
The Maine Affordable Housing Coalition (MAHC) is a membership organization representing public, private and non-profit groups. MAHC has more than 130 private and public sector organizations, including developers, architects, engineers, builders, investors, Community Action agencies, public housing authorities, housing and service providers, advocates and others committed to ensuring that all Mainers are adequately and affordably housed.
MAHC commissions reports to inform the development and advocacy for safe, affordable housing in Maine. These reports include an analysis of the housing needs of Maine’s older population, a comprehensive assessment of housing affordability in Maine, the effectiveness of the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Maine communities, the economic impacts of developing affordable housing, and the governance structure of Maine State Housing Authority, and also convenes public forums on the affordable housing crisis.
MAHC was a founding partner of Maine Together, a nonpartisan coalition of Maine organizations that recognized the vital role federal domestic programs play in supporting Maine’s economy and people and advocated for a federal budget that reflected their shared vision for Maine. The coalition’s work included a sign-on letter to Maine’s congressional delegation advocating for lifting federal budget caps for non-defense discretionary programs, which was signed by 151 organizations from a variety of sectors and hand-delivered to the office of Senator Susan Collins. While the Maine Together coalition no longer convenes, MAHC continues to work with many of the member organizations on state and federal housing policy issues.