Soon after Dani Nisbet bought her two-bedroom ranch in South Portland in 2017 she started wondering what could be built on the rest of her .65-acre, mostly wooded lot.
She knew housing was scarce across southern Maine. An artist, interior designer and hairdresser, she had heard heartbreaking stories from clients, family members and friends about their fruitless searches for homes to buy or rent.
“Everybody’s looking for housing,” Nisbet said. “My own kids can’t find housing. We need housing, plain and simple.”
