THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

Portland's Department of Planning & Urban Development's 2022 housing report shows that the city is on track to significantly exceed the production of housing units envisioned in its 2017 project, Portland's Plan, which set a goal of building 2,557 new units over the next 10 years. Arguably, no other midsize American city has come close to Portland in terms of the sheer audacity of the housing initiatives that voters have approved, or in reimagining the landlord-tenant relationship. Over the past three years, faced with a spiraling crisis of affordability and supply in the rental market, housing activists in Portland have proved Colson right, racking up one electoral victory after another. Ten years from now, looking back at what Sykes calls the polycrisis of the early 2020s, we may see the Portland revolt against the housing status quo as a turning point - the moment when a sick housing market started, slowly, to get back to health. [Extracted from the article]