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Rebecca Hatfield named new president, CEO of Avesta Housing

Rebecca Hatfield, senior vice president of real estate at Avesta Housing, has been named president and CEO of the affordable housing nonprofit. Hatfield, who joined Avesta in 2015, will succeed longtime President and CEO Dana Totman when he retires in September. Totman announced in January that he would retire after 22 years. Portland-based Avesta Housing

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Avesta Housing names successor to longtime CEO Dana Totman

Following a nationwide search, Rebecca Hatfield has been promoted to president and CEO of the nonprofit Avesta Housing, succeeding longtime leader Dana Totman. Hatfield, who joined Avesta in 2015, has been senior vice president of real estate at the Portland-based developer of affordable housing. She will move into her new role on Sept. 6. She

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Rebecca Hatfield named new President & CEO of Avesta Housing

Following a months-long, nationwide search, Rebecca Hatfield has been chosen as the next president and CEO of nonprofit affordable housing provider Avesta Housing. Hatfield is currently senior vice president of real estate at Avesta, and her promotion to president and CEO is the latest testament to the skills and accomplishments she has exhibited since joining

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Avesta Housing presents STRIVE U with Mike Yandell Award

STRIVE U of South Portland has been awarded the Avesta Housing Mike Yandell Award for its extraordinary work in the field of affordable housing. Avesta Housing President & CEO Dana Totman presented the award on June 22 to Pete Brown, associate director of PSL Services/STRIVE, during Avesta’s grand opening celebration of Deering Place, a 75-unit

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Dana Totman honored with Congressional Record entry

Avesta Housing President & CEO Dana Totman has been honored by U.S. Sen. Angus King (I”“Maine) in the Congressional Record for his 22 years of service at Avesta and in the affordable housing industry. Teague Morris, outreach director for King, presented Totman with an official copy of the Congressional Record on June 22 during the

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Avesta hosts grand opening celebration of Deering Place

On June 22, Avesta Housing held a grand opening celebration of Deering Place, a new 75-unit affordable housing development located in the heart of downtown Portland in the historic Parkside neighborhood. A mixture of affordable and market-rate units, Deering Place consists of three apartment buildings located on contiguous lots in the historic Parkside neighborhood: 63

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Nearly half of all Maine tenants cannot afford rent, new study says

Rent has become unaffordable for nearly half of all Maine tenants, according to new data from Harvard University. A study published Wednesday by the university’s Joint Center for Housing Studies indicates that 41.1 percent of tenants in the state are cost-burdened by rent, with almost 20 percent being “severely” cost-burdened. Click here to read the

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Affordable housing units open in heart of Portland

The housing authority in Maine, MaineHousing, estimates that Maine is between 20,000 and 25,000 affordable units short of what we need. That estimate is based on a couple of things, including the waiting list for Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) tenants and an annual survey of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which does a

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