As many as 1100 Mainers facing eviction could see some level of rent relief

Between 800 and 1,110 Mainers can expect to have a large part of their rent subsidized as soon as next month as Maine launches its pilot rent relief program.

A one-time $18 million appropriation of state funding approved by the Maine Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills was used to create the first state-funded eviction prevention program, aimed at helping households that are in court facing evictions, or have received notices of evictions.