Portland, MAINE — Avesta Housing has released its Affordable Housing Activity Report for the first three quarters of 2017. Key findings: Only 9% of households seeking affordable housing find housing with Avesta due to very high demand relative to vacancies 2,077 households were on Avesta’s wait list for affordable housing at the end of September

SOUTH PORTLAND — Avesta Housing submitted a much-anticipated proposal to city planners Thursday for a 64-unit housing project that would be built in the city’s West End neighborhood and target mostly low-income families. The five-story West End Apartments would be built at 586 Westbrook St., site of Le Variety and the West End Neighborhood Resource

SOUTH PORTLAND — An affordable housing plan for Redbank gained traction Monday night when city councilors approved placing the project in a tax increment financing district. By a unanimous vote and with little comment, the City Council agreed to set aside an acre of land extending from 586-600 Westbrook St. as a TIF district under

Portland is poised to offer $6.5 million in tax breaks for two separate housing projects that could add 135 units of housing, more than half of which would be considered affordable. The City Council will vote Monday on the two proposals for Tax Increment Financing, which returns a portion of property taxes generated from new

Avesta Housing, the Portland-based nonprofit provider of affordable housing, recently announced two winners of its first-ever educational scholarship. Dina Malual and Pamela Muzika each received $1,000 towards their tuition expenses at Emmanuel College in Boston and Babson College, in Wellesley, Mass., respectively. Avesta said that the two were selected out of numerous applicants because of

Avesta Housing Awards First Educational Scholarships PORTLAND, MAINE — Nonprofit affordable housing provider Avesta Housing recently announced two winners of its first ever educational scholarship. Dina Malual and Pamela Muzika each received $1,000 toward their tuition expenses at Emmanuel College and Babson College respectively. Malual and Muzika were among numerous applicants for the scholarship, and

Avesta Housing and the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce announced on Friday their opposition to Portland’s Question 2, a citizens’ initiative on the city’s Nov. 7 ballot that would allow a zoning change to be blocked if 25% of voters who live within 500 feet of a zoning change file written objections. The referendum question,

Opponents of Portland’s ballot measure to limit rent increases, known as Question 1, have argued that the way it would alter the eviction process for many landlords and tenants in the city would violate state law. Attorneys who specialize in landlord-tenant issues in Maine disagree on the extent to which the proposed ordinance would conflict

Study shows that Question 2 would severely limit growth, jobs, and affordable housing in Portland Avesta Housing and the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce reviewed recent and current development projects and, based on future projections, determined that if voters pass Portland’s Question 2 on November 7, it would have a serious and negative impact on