The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development is seeking applications from service providers to support municipalities with community housing planning and implementation services.
Donor Name: Maine Department of Economic and Community Development
State: Maine
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/14/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Funding Information
A Service Provider may request up to $150,000 for one or multiple projects within its one application.
Grant Period
May 2025– October 2026.
Eligible Activities
The Department intends the Service Provider Grants to provide municipalities and/or regions with the following activities to remove barriers to housing and increase housing opportunities.
- Community Education:
- Lead community engagement and educational programming for municipalities, developers, and community members to facilitate discussions about affordable housing development in communities and regions;
- Create and distribute housing guidance material to assist municipalities and regions with land use planning, data collection and analysis, and affordable housing development;
- Data Collection and Housing Production Goal Setting:
- Establish housing data collection procedures for municipalities and regions, including demolition, building permit, and certificate of occupancy data;
- Establish housing production goals for municipalities and sub-regions in alignment with the Statewide and Regional Housing Production Goals;
- Municipal Planning and Policy:
- Update municipal comprehensive plans to identify housing and land use priorities;
- Create municipal or regional housing needs assessments;
- Provide municipal mapping or other spatial analysis tools to visualize zoning ordinances or housing needs by regions or municipalities;
- Develop pre-approved designs for different housing types for municipalities and regions;
- Create municipal or regional accessory dwelling unit programs to increase ADU production;
- Review municipal land use ordinances to identify barriers to housing production and to make recommendations for changes to increase housing;
- Support the development of form-based codes in municipalities and regions to increase housing opportunities;
- Develop or update housing and community development master plans;
- Pre-Development:
- Assess feasibility of potential affordable housing sites; and
- Assess infrastructure upgrades.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be considered for grant funding under this process, Applicants must be a Service Provider. Service Providers include:
- Regional planning organizations (councils of governments, regional planning commissions);
- Regional economic development organizations as referenced in Title 30-A, Chapter 119;
- County governments;
- Non-profit organizations;
- Academic institutions;
- Cooperative extension programs;
- For-profit enterprises; and
- Municipalities.
For more information, visit DECD.
