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Former Maine House Speaker Joins Avesta Housing

Ryan Fecteau has been named senior officer of policy and planning at Avesta Housing, the largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in Northern New England. In the newly formed role, he will be part of Avesta’s real estate development team, supporting the organization’s advocacy efforts and working on municipal-level coordination to move new developments through key milestones.

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Avesta hires former Maine House speaker from Biddeford

Avesta Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing provider in northern New England, has hired former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Ryan Fecteau for a newly formed role of senior officer of policy and planning. As a member of Avesta’s real estate development team, he will support Avesta’s organizational advocacy efforts and work on municipal-level

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Former Maine shelter to be converted into affordable housing, address needs of homeless people

Avesta Housing plans to turn the former Oxford Street homeless shelter in Portland into permanent housing. Avesta has reached an option agreement to buy the 1/3 acre property and is considering plans to develop a mixed-income community, including Site-based Housing First and multifamily residential housing with approximately 30 to 50 affordable apartments. Avesta Housing plans

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At least 30 ‘Housing First’ apartments planned at former Portland homeless shelter

Developers are planning at least 30 affordable “Housing First” apartments for homeless people at the former site of Portland’s Oxford Street homeless shelter. Avesta Housing, a Portland-based nonprofit affordable housing provider, has secured an option agreement to purchase the 1/3 acre parcel at 203 Oxford St., which was once Portland’s centrally located homeless shelter before

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‘Housing First’ obtains another property to get people off the streets

PORTLAND, Maine — The former Oxford Street shelter is set to become Maine’s fourth site-based Housing First property, according to Avesta Housing. The non-profit’s CEO, Rebecca Hatfield, said Monday that Avesta is under contract to purchase the City of Portland’s former homeless shelter. She said the plan is to demolish it and construct 30 new units for

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Avesta, Preble Street team up on proposed housing for Portland’s homeless

Avesta Housing and Preble Street have unveiled a proposal to build what’s being called “Site-based Housing First” — permanent housing with on-site support services for chronically homeless people — where the former Oxford Street homeless shelter stood in Portland. Avesta, a Portland-based nonprofit that operates 100 affordable properties, more than 3,000 apartments and two assisted

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