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Find out how anyone can show up at a local town meeting and make a difference when it comes to housing with Todd Morse, founder of the Urbanist Coalition of Portland, Maine www.urbanistportland.me and Sonja Trauss, California YIMBY Movement Founder www.yimbyaction.org. Obama let loose his inner housing policy nerd at the Democratic National Convention and housing is the center piece of Kamala’s economic agenda. Governor Tim Walz has made housing a top priority as has Governor Janet Mills of Maine too. Greg Payne, Senior Housing Advisor to Governor Mills, says Maine needs 84,000 new housing units by 2030. It’s a tall order for a small population state, but if everyone across the country is saying housing is too expensive and there’s not enough of it, could we actually succeed in saying Yes To Housing in our local communities? At GPCOG’s housing summit this year you had the rare occurrence of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce at the same table as the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), and they were both agreeing that housing is a top issue. Businesses and environmentalist agree, in Maine and across the country, it is imperative we do something about housing. But it is regular people moving from caring about housing and complaining about housing to actually doing something about it, that is really moving the needle. Thank you to the MEREDA Matters podcast and to GPCOG for access to their housing summit audio. Thank you for listening and sharing and being a part of the Yes To Housing movement. 
