LEWISTON — A new committee will go back to the drawing board on a proposed rental registration program in Lewiston, after some landlords questioned the initial framework during a City Council workshop last month. The council voted unanimously last week to create an ad-hoc advisory committee on rental registration, a system that would charge multiunit property […]
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Report confirms that Maine’s rental market among nation’s least affordable
Maine’s rental market is among the least affordable in the nation, according to a report released Wednesday that places it alongside high-housing-cost states such as California, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii. The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual report showed the gap between an average renter’s wage and the wage needed to comfortably afford a […]
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Compromise in Augusta includes $4 million for program to deal with lead paint
AUGUSTA — A budget deal worked out among legislative leaders Monday includes a $4 million lead abatement program that would significantly boost efforts to combat a health issue that is especially severe in Lewiston and Auburn. “I’m pretty pumped” to learn the program made the cut, said Rep. Jared Golden, a Lewiston Democrat who has […]
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Bates College: There grows the neighborhood
The college currently owns and pays taxes on 60 houses and apartment buildings around the campus — as part of its plan to secure a long-term and expandable future for itself.
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Auburn housing project picks up state funding
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 — […]