This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.
Rent rules, lot rent, rent review boards; the class a mobile home park amendment belongs to alongside Housing density.Our definition of the class, 2026-08-29.
Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 4 dated municipal records flagged as rent regulation in Maine, spanning 4 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.
The record starts in Augusta, 8 February 2024. Since then 4 Maine towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Lewiston on 26 August 2026.
The last 90 days put 1 meeting on the record, level with the 90 days before.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Government Programming, City Council and Document Center / Town Manager.
| Quarter | Meetings | Towns |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 to Nov 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 to May 2026 | 1 | 1 |
| Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current) | 1 | 1 |
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Sep 2025 to Nov 2025, with 1 meetings.
26 August 2026 · Lewiston City Council Meetings Workshops
the agenda, on the town's own site City Council Special Meeting — Agenda
7 April 2026 · Brunswick Document Center / Town Manager
the posted document, on the town's own site MHP Ordinance as of 040726
18 November 2025 · Gorham Government Programming
the agenda, on the town's own site Town Council Meeting - November 18th, 2025 — Agenda
8 February 2024 · Augusta
the document, on the town's own site 2 8 2024 Informational Meeting (1) 38
The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.
Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 2 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.
We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.
Also at this scope: Rent regulation across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.
Towns on the record
4
Earliest
8 February 2024
Meetings, last 90 days
1 against 1 before
Snapshot cut
31 August 2026
A view that stays current