Janet Mills on Welfare & Poverty

	Janet Mills on Welfare & Poverty

Housing First legislation addresses chronic homelessness

Housing First has proven to be a very successful and cost effective approach to addressing the needs of people experiencing chronic homelessness, many of whom are struggling for stability while suffering from acute mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Under this legislation, Maine would provide permanent supportive housing, providing communities across Maine with a desperately needed resource to address chronic homelessness and reduce health care and public safety costs. Source: 2023 State of the State Address to the Maine legislature , Feb 14, 2023

Build nearly 1000 more affordable homes over 8 years

Assistant Majority Leader Ryan Fecteau has proposed a Maine Affordable Housing Tax Credit program, similar to the Maine Historic Tax Credit program which helped boost the economy in recent years. This proposal would create nearly 1,000 additional affordable homes over eight years, increasing Maine's current rate of production by 50 percent. Send that bill to my desk. I will sign it. Source: 2020 Maine State of the State address , Jan 21, 2020

Demands release of publically funded welfare study

Atty Gen Janet Mills demanded in a letter that Gov. Paul LePage release a publically funded report crafted by the controversial Alexander Group to anyone who requested it. When asked how he responded, LePage said: "Tell her to sue me." The letter was sent to LePage and Mary Mayhew, whose Dept of HHS signed a $925,000 contract for the Rhode Island-based Alexander Group to study Maine's welfare system, including the possibility of expanding Medicaid as allowed by the federal Affordable Care Act. Source: Bangor Daily News on 2018 Maine Gubernatorial race , Jan 29, 2017

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