Francis Zarro

Affordable Housing For Everyone (2025) by William Estrada Homeownership has long been the main path to economic mobility in the United States. For generations, it allowed working people to build stability, accumulate wealth, and create something they could pass on to their children. A mortgage acted as forced savings, and owning property provided security and independence that renting does not. Today, that path has narrowed sharply. What was once within reach for much of the working class...

I delivered the following testimony before the Judiciary Committee of the Maine Legislature on January 20 in support of L.D. 2059. Access to effective legal representation is a constitutional obligation, one that has been denied Mainers for far too long. Senator Carney, Representative Kuhn, and distinguished members of the Committee, My name is Francis Zarro. I am a resident of Biddeford, Maine and Principal of Society Impact, a public benefit company that works with state and local...

There is now a growing movement in New York State and throughout the country for criminal  justice reforms that will reverse a decades...