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13 October
5:08 pm

It's a thirty billion dollar problem or eighty thousand units down.

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Bobby Charles, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (WGME)

5:08 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figures claiming Maine's housing shortage is a $30 billion problem and 80,000 units short — both are verifiable against housing data.
What we foundThe '80,000 units' figure is well-supported by the official 2023 Maine Housing Production Needs Study, but no primary or authoritative source uses or derives a '$30 billion' total cost figure for the housing shortage.
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