The $15 million package would create an estimated 200 new affordable housing units, with $500,000 earmarked for home repairs for low-income seniors.
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Maine home-buying compromised as federal shutdown enters Day 21
Closures of government agencies are starting to affect the part of the housing market that depends on federally backed loans, making buyers, sellers, renters and brokers wary.
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Mills to authorize sale of long-stalled senior housing bonds
Approved by 69 percent of voters three years ago, the $15 million in bonds to help finance construction of affordable senior housing units had been held up by Gov. Paul LePage.
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Affordable housing project breaks ground in Auburn
Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque, foreground, speaks Friday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the 36-unit affordable apartment project on Minot Avenue next to Fairview Elementary School in Auburn. Three apartment buildings will include 18 one-bedroom units, 10 two-bedroom units, and eight three-bedroom units built on 3 acres sold by Clover Health Care owner Joe Hogan to […]
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Rwandan woman finds home in Maine with loan for asylum seekers
A new program offers zero-interest loans to asylum seekers who need security deposits to get homes of their own.
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Nine housing projects in Maine receive federal aid
The $15.3 million in grants and loans are earmarked for affordable housing.
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Hartley Block downtown Lisbon Street development to take applications soon
LEWISTON — The developers behind the Hartley Block building on downtown Lisbon Street will begin taking housing applications in January ahead of the expected completion date this spring. Construction for the mixed-use development at 155 Lisbon St. began in February and quickly took shape over the summer, filling a large gap of storefront downtown that had […]
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Maine home sales continue record-breaking pace
While national sales activity dropped 6.7 percent in November, the volume of sales in Maine increased by nearly 3 percent.
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Housing developers among those hoping to transform Mercy Hospital building
PORTLAND—Housing developers are among the six individuals or groups that responded to a nationwide request for proposals to redevelop the 77-year-old Mercy Hospital building in Portland. Mercy officials will spend the upcoming weeks going through the proposals for its State Street facility and conducting interviews with the development teams, according to spokesman Ed Gilman, who […]
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More housing, upgrades could be coming to Lewiston's Tree Streets neighborhood
LEWISTON — City officials got their first look Tuesday at a proposal for a 35-unit Avesta Housing development on Pine and Blake streets downtown. According to a memo to the City Council, the mixed-income development would be built on a vacant slice of land between 82 Pine St. and 111 Blake St., but would need […]