Bateman Partners plans to build 60 new affordable housing units and update 32 more.
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What’s in the cards for Maine? Tarot reading takes a look at year ahead
Will it be a snowy winter? Will Janet Mills run for Senate? We turned to the tarot card deck for insight into Maine’s future.
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Waterville to welcome scores of apartments starting in 2025
The first 15 units in the northernmost Lockwood Mill building on Water Street will get their first tenants shortly after the new year, according to officials.
Posted inScarborough Leader, South Portland Sentry
Scarborough considers 96-unit affordable and workforce housing development
The development would consist of 60 affordable units for people 55 and older in one building and another 36 units of workforce housing spread across three buildings.
Posted inTimes Record
Shelter Institute goes digital, spreading to homebuilders worldwide
After 50 years of empowering Midcoast craftsmen, a Woolwich organization has turned to online courses and opened enrollment to international students. Here’s what graduates have to say.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine sells old courthouses in Sanford, Biddeford to turn into housing
Authorities are planning to convert the former courthouses into apartment buildings, and state officials are also in discussions regarding a third site in York.
Posted inMaine, Times Record
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.
Posted inTimes Record
Midcoast housing authority pausing vouchers in preparation for new Topsham complex
The Brunswick Topsham Housing Authority will stop issuing vouchers, also known as Section 8 rental assistance, to save opportunities for the new housing complex being built in Topsham. The waiting list to move into the new building will also open within the next few weeks.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
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.
Posted inTimes Record
Landlord pushback delays Brunswick rental registry changes
Tenants at Monday night’s Town Council meeting saw the proposed changes — one of which would increase code enforcement and charge an annual fee of $50 per unit for registration — as a potential win for tenants’ rights and safety. Landlords pushed back and made it clear that tenants would eat the cost.