House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross submitted a similar bill last session, but it did not advance out of committee after Gov. Janet Mills funded a smaller expansion, limited to noncitizens who are pregnant or under the age of 21.
House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, submitted a similar bill last session, but it did not advance out of committee after Gov. Janet Mills funded a smaller expansion, limited to noncitizens who are pregnant or under the age of 21.
Allina Diaz, a community organizer with Maine Equal Justice, says affordable housing is already scarce, and the end of the federal emergency rental assistance program will only make the situation worse.