The city’s Planning Board approved an Augusta Housing Authority proposal for 32 new apartments off Bangor Street and will soon take up a proposal for a 38-unit building on Western Avenue.
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Affordable housing, shelter space coming to Farmington through federal funds
Western Maine Community Action was awarded nearly $7 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to convert two properties to affordable housing and emergency shelter for housing-insecure people.
Developers seek feedback on proposal for 42-unit apartment projects in Madison
The proposed apartments would be constructed at a town-owned site that was once home of the Weston Avenue School and more recently was home to Maine School Administrative District 59’s administrative offices until closing in 2012.
Workforce housing proposed for Western Avenue in Augusta
The developer of the Stevens Commons site in Hallowell is hoping to build more than three dozen studio and one-bedroom apartments at 99 Western Ave. for people making up to 60% of the area’s average income.
Nearly half of all Maine tenants cannot afford rent, new study says
A Harvard University report indicates that Maine’s renters are struggling – something that those in the affordable housing arena know all too well.
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program identifies more than $1.3 million in fraudulent requests for rental assistance
Agency that provides social services to residents of Kennebec and Somerset counties has received the most fraudulent applications for federal rental assistance in Maine this year.
Agency safeguards catch roughly $6.4 million in fraudulent emergency rental relief claims
Only a fraction of an estimated $6.4 million in fraudulent claims received funding, according to an audit.