PORTLAND — Avesta Housing hopes to build 40 one-bedroom apartments for people age 55 and older at the corner of Brighton Avenue and Wessex Street. “It has been too many years since senior housing has been built (in Portland),” Avesta Development Officer Greg Payne said Feb. 9. The new housing would be built on the

Lobster traps, buoys, barrels and industrial buildings dot Portland’s Union Wharf, owned by the Poole family for more than two centuries. Brothers Charlie and Malcolm Poole lease space to 25 tenants and 15 boats that tie up on the pier, all part of Portland’s prized working waterfront. As they seek new tenants and income sources,

Applications for affordable housing to Avesta Housing, the largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in northern New England, have gone up by 24% since 2014, but the availability of housing for low-income renters has gone down, the organization said Thursday. The company’s 2017 Affordable Housing Activity report shows a widening gap between how many families have

 In President Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, he emphasized the need to invest in the workforce: “….and let’s support working families by supporting paid family leave,” the president said. Paid maternity leave is an idea that’s been around for decades, but currently only a third of employers offer the benefit. Proposals at