housing
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PublishedDecember 21, 2024
Mortality rate rising among formerly homeless in Portland’s housing first programs
Chronic homelessness often comes with long-term health issues so when people finally get into one of 3 site-based housing first programs in the city, they sometimes don't have much time left.
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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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PublishedDecember 5, 2024
South Portland maintains status quo on ADUs
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PublishedDecember 3, 2024
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.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2024
Affordable housing proposed for downtown Biddeford
Developers are looking to construct two affordable housing buildings geared towards seniors by 2027.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2024
Portland Housing Authority has new vouchers for youth exiting foster care
For the last four years, the authority has been circulating 17 housing vouchers for young people aging out of foster care. Now they are getting an additional 13.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2024
New development in Portland’s West End offers homes for formerly homeless
The Winter Landing development opened last month, welcoming 19 new residents, many of whom had spent more than 180 days at the city's homeless shelter and were disabled or 62 and older.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2024
In a region known for quaint downtowns, a community without one builds from scratch
One year in, the town center of The Downs development in Scarborough is taking shape as the project's planners engineer a community hub in one of Maine's oldest towns.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2024
Portland Planning Board to reconsider Munjoy Hill condominium project
The project at at 19 Willis St. was approved unanimously in 2021 despite concerns that the building wouldn't fit with the character of the neighborhood and could drive up rental prices.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2024
Concerns remain over proposed development in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood
At the Planning Board's second workshop on the project, which would combine housing-first, affordable and market-rate apartments concerns remained over the location of the project in Bayside neighborhood and the lack of green space it would bring to the neighborhood.
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