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26 minutes ago ·
🗳️ All of this. Every word. Vote Yes for Question 2. You can request an absentee ballot now. ![]()
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38 minutes ago ·
🗳️ You don't need a home to vote. Thank you for reminding us, Preble Street and Homeless Voices for Justice. Vote! ![]()
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23 hours ago ·
🗳️ "Seven states have banned the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers. Guess how many of those states now have no tipping? Zero." Question D will set our city's minimum wage to $18 an hour over a 3 years. People who work here should be able to live here. Vote! Request an absentee ballot now. ![]()
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2 days ago ·
🗳️ Maine is #5 among the 12 least affordable states states for renters, #portlandme is most expensive in the state. Questions B, C and D will help keep people housed in our city. ![]()
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Question B allows short-term rental units, which when unregulated take away from affordable housing stock for long-term #portlandme people, in owner-occupied, tenant-occupied and duplexes occupied by the owner. ![]()
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Question C protects renters, who are being driven out of #portlandme. It requires 90 days for lease termination, it limits deposits to one month, and it prohibits application fees people scrambling to remain housed cannot afford in our market. ![]()
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Question D sets the #portlandme minimum wage to $18 an hour over 3 years, because workers who have made our city a great place to be should be able to live here and enjoy it, too. Vote! We can do this! ![]()
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2 days ago ·
🗳️ "[B]ecause of Airbnb, absentee landlords are moving their properties out of the long-term rental and for-sale markets and into the short-term rental market."![]()
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2 days ago ·
🗳️ Question 2, which all Charter Commissioners contributed to, updates City of Portland, Maine governance so City Hall, when it sets policy and executes policy, is more responsive, more accountable and more democratic. There are 14 things Question 2 will do. Here they are. Vote Yes on Question 2! ![]()
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5 days ago ·
We were just talking about how the development of housing is a primary driver for economic development, weren't we?! ![]()
Employers want workers who want to live downtown. People want to be free of the burdens of a daily commute and near restaurants cultural institutions, and entertainment. Retailers want customers to have easy access to their locations. Downtowns offer all that, and so much more. ![]()
Franklin Street offers all this like no other place.![]()
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ReBuild Franklin Street Now to turn a sewer for cars into housing for the workers Portland will need to be a successful city for years to come.![]()
#franklinstreet, #urbanrenewal, #housing, #portlandmaine, #rebuildfranklinstreetnow, #travelspeed. #levelofservice, #saferoads, #historicdistrict, #gentrification, #streetgrid, #transitorienteddevelopment,#tod, #lincolnpark, #urbanwalkingtour #roaddiet, #buildhousing, #t4america
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