Affordable Housing Finance has selected 36 developments as finalists in its 13th annual Readers’ Choice Awards competition. Competing in 10 categories, they represent some of the best affordable housing developments completed in 2016 and 2017. The finalists were selected based on their impact on their community, creative problem-solving, sustainable and inventive design, and innovative financing,

PORTLAND — Bayside Anchor was touted as a model of mixed-income, mixed-use housing at a grand opening June 7. The 45-unit, four-story building at the corner of Boyd and East Oxford streets has 36 units of low-income housing and the new home of the Portland Community Policing Station. “It is very much a blessing, I

SOUTH PORTLAND — More affordable housing is being planned in the city’s west end with the help of a city-backed loan. A variety store owner is hoping to build a mixed-use building that would include some affordable housing on Westbrook Street, between the Redbank and Brickhill neighborhoods, by borrowing municipal funds. The City Council on

PORTLAND, Maine — The city of Portland celebrated the grand opening of the Bayside Anchor housing development on Wednesday. Click here to view the full video

In 2015, Portland Housing Authority (PHA) completed its Strategic Vision Plan for all of its 1,000 units of public housing. PHA has various sites in Portland with under-utilized land and parking lots, and Bayside Anchor was just such a parking lot. Bayside Anchor created a unique partnership between Avesta Housing and the Portland Housing Authority that

PORTLAND (WGME) — New apartments are opening in Portland’s bayside neighborhood. Developers hope the new complex will help ease the housing crisis in the city. The Bayside Anchor is officially open and plenty came out for the celebration Wednesday, including Portland’s Mayor Ethan Strimling. Portland Housing Authority and Avesta Housing were the co-developers on the

Officials will hold a grand opening celebration on Wednesday for Bayside Anchor, an energy-efficient, 45-unit affordable apartment building in Portland. The Portland Housing Authority and Avesta Housing partnered to build the apartments in the city’s East Bayside neighborhood. It includes nine market-rate units and 36 affordable units, which are rented to families earning between $23,000

Avesta Housing is proud to announce that it has completed the construction of 30 “Housing First” apartments for homeless individuals in Portland. As was the case at Logan Place and Florence House, our two prior housing first projects, Avesta is partnering with Preble Street for the provision of 24-hour, on-site support services. All 30 of the Huston

Until recently, “passive housing” — residences built to achieve ultra-low energy use — has been kind of a boutique-y effort, with eco-minded homeowners making upfront investments to radically reduce their carbon footprint. But now, Maine is on the leading edge of a surge in its development, on a large scale. Last fall, the nation’s biggest

Avesta Housing will open 45 new housing units, including 36 earmarked for buyers with a household income of $23,000 to $49,000. Bayside Anchor, built at a cost of $7.8 million at 81 E. Oxford St., will be a mixed-use passive-house building in the East Bayside neighborhood of Portland. Avesta, a Portland nonprofit with 2,000 apartments