A variety of projects that have been undertaken across Maine in an effort to address the lack of affordable housing. Credit: Leela Stockley / BDN Composite; BDN Staff; Associated Press

We asked developers how they would build 700 low-income housing units in Bangor if they had unlimited funding and resources with no restrictions.

While they had broad ideas, they struggled to come up with precise ideas or locations where this housing could go due to the sheer improbability of the limitless pitch.

We now want to hear how you, the people who know Bangor best, would create that housing. What type of housing should be built and where exactly do you think it should go? The more specific, the better.

These details can be written in the Typeform below. If we get enough ideas, we’ll bring them to developers and see what they think and why they would or would not work.

Kathleen O'Brien is a reporter covering the Bangor area. Born and raised in Portland, she joined the Bangor Daily News in 2022 after working as a Bath-area reporter at The Times Record. She graduated from...

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