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Avesta Housing wins Best of 207 award for Best Senior Living

The results are in, and Avesta Housing has won the bronze award for Best Senior Living in Best of the 207 awards! Presented annually by Portland Radio Group, Best of the 207 presents awards for dining, retail, services, and more based on nominations and votes submitted online by members of the public. Click here to view the

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Norway Savings Bank provides $100,000 gift to Avesta Housing

Avesta Housing, the largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in northern New England, has received a $100,000 gift from Norway Savings Bank to help provide affordable housing and support services to people in need. Avesta has more than 100 properties serving more than 4,000 people, and more than 800 new homes in its real estate development

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It’s getting more expensive for Mainers to age in place

Most seniors want to live in their homes or communities for as long as possible, or, “age in place.” As outfitting homes and carrying out maintenance gets more costly, local volunteer organizations are stepping up to help. Around 75 percent of adults aged 50 or older indicated they’d like to age in place, according to

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Community gardening co-op brings residents together

At Foxwell in Kittery, Maine, a group of residents have formed a gardening cooperative to transform their outdoor living spaces into beautiful displays featuring flowers, greenery, lawn ornaments, bird houses, and more. It started with simple landscaping maintenance — raking leaves, picking up fallen branches, painting the wooden fence behind the property — and mushroomed

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More than 150 Avesta homes on schedule to open this year

Our real estate development is going full throttle, with several properties expected to be completed this fall and several more in the design or construction phases. Porter Station in Portland and the first phase of River Turn in Conway, N.H., are both 80% complete and are expected to be finished in October. At Porter Station,

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Housing-first strategy ties stable residences with social services

Dawn Wade knows her place is cluttered, with knickknacks, plants, food containers and artwork covering almost every square inch of her studio apartment in Portland. But it’s hers, something that seemed far out of reach when she was homeless six years ago. “This is home to me. It’s a community here. I don’t know where

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Waitlists grow as developers plan, build and fill affordable housing

John Welch was homeless for nine months before moving into Hillside at Village Square, a 27-unit subsidized apartment building in Gorham that Avesta Housing opened in January. It was a rough period. A breakup left the disabled former construction worker struggling to find an apartment in a tight housing market made worse by the COVID-19

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Avesta President & CEO Rebecca Hatfield on Boulos Beat podcast

Avesta Housing President & CEO Rebecca Hatfield is featured in the latest episode of The Boulos Beat, presented by The Boulos Company of Portland. In a nearly hour-long interview, Rebecca talks about the people who inspired her, transitioning into her current role, the housing shortage and what Avesta is doing to address it, and much

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New Hampshire properties bustling with new services for residents

Melissa LeBrun has spent most of her adult life helping others. She began fostering children in her 20s, four of whom she adopted. During the Great Recession, she launched a soup kitchen with her mother in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire. She is a former medical social worker with a master’s degree in human services

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