Plans to create nearly 400 new units of affordable housing in Maine will move ahead after receiving crucial financial support from a federal bank this week. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston will play a pivotal role in the development of much-needed affordable housing in 2017, providing $17.5 million in subsidies for 13 projects

Climate change poses a threat to property and infrastructure up and down the East Coast, and in Portland, residents and planners are starting to devise a response. The latest installment of our occasional series “Beyond 350: Confronting Climate Change” focuses on the growing movement toward “coastal resilience.” Portland’s Bayside neighborhood is one of the city’s

Chomba Kaluba, a resident at Avesta Housing’s mixed-income development 409 Cumberland in Portland, Maine, sat down with Affordable Housing Finance to discuss what home and community mean to him. Kaluba also is an Avesta Housing board member. Please click the link below to be redirected to video of the interview. Click here to watch the