Norway Savings Bank, which serves customers at 24 branches across the state, has donated $100,000 to Portland-based Avesta Housing to help provide housing and support to people in need. “We recognize the urgent need for more housing across Maine and we take our role in meeting this challenge very seriously,” Norway Savings Bank President &
Avesta Housing, the largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in northern New England, has received a $100,000 gift from Norway Savings Bank to help provide affordable housing and support services to people in need. Avesta has more than 100 properties serving more than 4,000 people, and more than 800 new homes in its real estate development
Ryan Fecteau has been named senior officer of policy and planning at Avesta Housing, the largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in Northern New England. In the newly formed role, he will be part of Avesta’s real estate development team, supporting the organization’s advocacy efforts and working on municipal-level coordination to move new developments through key milestones.
Avesta Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing provider in northern New England, has hired former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Ryan Fecteau for a newly formed role of senior officer of policy and planning. As a member of Avesta’s real estate development team, he will support Avesta’s organizational advocacy efforts and work on municipal-level
Avesta Housing plans to turn the former Oxford Street homeless shelter in Portland into permanent housing. Avesta has reached an option agreement to buy the 1/3 acre property and is considering plans to develop a mixed-income community, including Site-based Housing First and multifamily residential housing with approximately 30 to 50 affordable apartments. Avesta Housing plans
A new proposal would turn the site of a former Portland homeless shelter into affordable housing. Avesta Housing and Preble Street have unveiled a proposal for “site-based housing first,” which Preble Street says is a solution to chronic homelessness. Mainebiz reports that it would be located at the site of the former Oxford Street Shelter and
Developers are planning at least 30 affordable “Housing First” apartments for homeless people at the former site of Portland’s Oxford Street homeless shelter. Avesta Housing, a Portland-based nonprofit affordable housing provider, has secured an option agreement to purchase the 1/3 acre parcel at 203 Oxford St., which was once Portland’s centrally located homeless shelter before
PORTLAND, Maine — The former Oxford Street shelter is set to become Maine’s fourth site-based Housing First property, according to Avesta Housing. The non-profit’s CEO, Rebecca Hatfield, said Monday that Avesta is under contract to purchase the City of Portland’s former homeless shelter. She said the plan is to demolish it and construct 30 new units for
Avesta Housing and Preble Street are planning to turn the site of Portland’s former Oxford Street shelter into a Housing First project, offering both housing and support services for residents. Avesta CEO Rebecca Hatfield said her organization is proposing to demolish the existing shelter and construct a new building on site. “That would be comprised
Two community groups that have collaborated on past projects are again working together to address housing needs for homeless people in Portland. This time, however, they are taking a long-term approach. Avesta Housing and Preble Street are teaming up on a plan to create “site-based Housing First permanent Housing” at the former Oxford Street Shelter,
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