Avesta Housing
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PublishedDecember 6, 2024
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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PublishedOctober 22, 2024
Neighbors push back on affordable housing plan in Portland’s Nason’s Corner
Officials want a developer to turn 1125 Brighton Ave. into an affordable housing development to help meet the city's desperate need for housing. Nearby residents are vowing to fight it.
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PublishedJune 26, 2024
Project would mix housing-first, affordable and market-rate apartments in Portland’s Bayside
The 3 adjacent buildings would be built on Cedar, Lancaster and Oxford streets at the site of the former Oxford Street Shelter.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2024
Public input to continue on build-out pace of proposed Gorham subdivision
The developers of a proposed 391-unit residential project in Gorham Village are asking the town to allow them to build more units per year than is currently allowed.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2023
Avesta, Preble Street propose building 30 to 50 apartments on former Oxford Street shelter site
The plan still needs funding and city approval and likely wouldn't be built until 2025 and ready for occupancy by 2027.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2023
Kennebunk Savings Bank plans to donate land for affordable housing
If a contract zone is approved by Kennebunk voters, Avesta Housing will build 70 units of affordable housing for older residents near the bank's operations center on Alewive Park Road.
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PublishedMay 17, 2023
Charge dismissed against Portland man accused of vandalizing picnic table
Christian MilNeil has denied writing an anti-police sentiment on a park table outside a public housing building in June 2020.
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2023
Asylum seekers to move in to new South Portland apartments
Avesta Housing has received an occupancy permit for West End II and will begin moving asylum seekers in within a few weeks.