Starting the first week in January, the new apartments — a mixture of workplace and market-rate units — will start welcoming new tenants.
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A Brunswick family’s desperate hunt for housing as temperatures drop
James Olson has been searching for housing as his deadline to move out nears, but without much luck.
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Maine nonprofit will renovate fixer-uppers, sell them as affordable housing
The new Avesta Housing program is meant to help moderate-income families that are ‘often overlooked’ afford their first home.
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MaineHousing awards nearly $13 million in tax credits to affordable housing projects
The seven projects include 141 units for older adults in Bath, Portland and Windham, and 179 units for families in Portland, Biddeford and Mexico.
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Eviction relief program is keeping Maine families housed, but high demand depletes funding
More than 1,500 are queued up, hoping to receive up to $800 a month in rent relief and a one-time payment to catch up on back rent.
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Statewide eviction prevention program to begin taking applications Monday
The program, funded with an $18 million allotment from the state, will provide a two-fold approach to rent relief: offering tenants one-time assistance paying back-rent, plus monthly rent subsidies for one year.
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As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
While Americans continue to struggle under high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units could disappear in the next five years.
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Maine People’s Alliance group takes on housing crisis in Lewiston meeting
The group gathered Thursday night involved some who are officially involved in the fight for more affordable housing. Most of them, though, were men and women who have been on the receiving end of drastic rent increases or other issues that sent them scrambling.
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What is social housing, and why does a Portland city councilor think it could help solve the housing crisis?
Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes ran with social housing at the center of her platform and has mentioned it for months around City Hall. Now she’s hoping to put together a task force to try to explore getting the program off the ground.
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Two of Maine’s most rural counties need to build more housing more quickly, state says
A report published Tuesday includes targets that each county should hit to meet a statewide goal of adding 84,000 homes by 2030. But it falls short of issuing any mandates.