An aerial view of the area where a 53-unit workforce housing development is being proposed in Auburn behind the Auburn Public Library, right. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal file photo) AUBURN — Construction will begin this year on a 53-unit housing development on Hampshire Street after the project recently secured funding from the Maine State Housing Authority. […]
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Three Maine housing companies with ties to Michael Liberty file for bankruptcy
Three Maine companies that own apartments that lease to the elderly, disabled and low-income residents have filed for bankruptcy. The companies are all seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which will allow them to try to reorganize their debts and then resume normal financial operations. The holdings of the companies – Pine State Housing, Montfort Housing […]
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Panel: Innovation needed to keep housing affordable
LEWISTON — Housing is the basis for solving many of the social issues this country faces, and perhaps it deserves more attention. That was the consensus among a diverse panel of Maine housing professionals during a Great Falls Forum on Thursday on innovations in housing. Both nonprofit and for-profit organizations were represented at the forum […]
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Housing innovations topic at Great Falls Forum
LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum on Thursday will feature a panel discussion titled “Innovations in Housing.” It will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library. Panelists include Amy Cullen, development officer for the Szanton Co.; Cullen Ryan, executive director of Community Housing of Maine; Craig Saddlemire, […]
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Affordable housing units break ground in Auburn
Sharon Philbrook Bergeron, right, president of the Auburn Housing Development Corp., talks with Joan Lynch and her son, Kevin Lynch, during the groundbreaking for 62 Spring St., a multi-unit housing development in Auburn, on Thursday. Joan and Kevin Lynch sold the property where their Dillingham & Son Funeral Home once stood to get the subsidized […]
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Disabled marijuana cultivators face eviction from Lewiston apartment
LEWISTON — In a bedroom of her Healy Terrace apartment, 65-year-old Susan Deschene created an elaborate growing room for three carefully cultivated marijuana plants in containers filled with ground-up coconut husks. For the pain-racked family and child counselor — who uses a wheelchair and whose health has kept her from working for a decade — […]
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Lewiston cracking down on unsafe housing: ‘We’ve been very aggressive’
More inspectors. More enforcement. More court time. More demolitions. Lewiston is cracking down on unsafe housing like never before, angering some landlords and pleasing others. LEWISTON — Rick Lockwood, a Lewiston landlord who at one time controlled more than 10 buildings in the downtown, wants out of the city. He believes he’s being targeted by […]
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Housing stipend for Congress? Here's a better way
Does anyone pity the poor congressman? He spends much of his life on the road, eating rubber chicken or repugnant local specialties, in between making a few speeches and shaking a whole lot of hands. And when he comes off the road, he generally does not go home to whatever fair district where he once […]
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Lewiston affordable housing opens
LEWISTON — Just about four years ago, Craig Saddlemire was one of dozens of people looking on in horror as a series of fires destroyed five buildings between Pierce and Bartlett streets. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for the revamped Pierce Place complex, which features 29 new units of affordable housing along with 33 renovated […]
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Getting the lead out, poison prevention efforts expanding
LEWISTON — Shilo Mathieu is on the front lines in America’s decades-long struggle to protect children from lead poisoning. And what she’s been seeing recently in this city known for its lead paint problem is both heartening and foreboding. Mathieu is a family nurse practitioner at Lewiston’s downtown B Street Clinic, which serves the city’s […]