July 5, 2016 By Kelley Bouchard Portland Press Herald Gov. Paul LePage and his adversaries agree that the housing needs of Maine’s low-income seniors have fallen prey to politics, but some housing advocates are trying to work around the State House stalemate. ...
May 26, 2016 MEDIA ALERT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Greg Payne, Director; (207)245-3341; gpayne@mainehousingcoalition.org New Report Details Lack of Affordable Homes Available in Maine, Nationwide In order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment...
May 26, 2016 By Ed Morin MPBN In order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment at fair market rates in Maine, renters would need to earn just over $17 an hour, and in parts of the state the so-called housing wage would be much higher. That’s according to the...
May 23, 2016 By Mal Leary MPBN Gov. Paul LePage says he will ask lawmakers to change the language in a $10 million bond issue for senior housing the voters approved last November. Appearing on Maine Public Radio’s Maine Calling program, he said he supports the...
May 20, 2016 By Ben Lane HousingWire As part of an effort to address what it calls America’s growing housing crisis, a bipartisan group in the Senate unveiled a bill this week that aims to boost affordable housing development by expanding the Low Income Housing Tax...
May 16, 2016 Lewiston Sun Journal By Scott Thistle LEWISTON (Sun Journal) — Shilo Mathieu is on the front lines in America’s decades-long struggle to protect children from lead poisoning. And what she has been seeing recently in the city known for its lead...
May 6, 2016 By Patty Wight MPBN Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services is on the cusp of expanding efforts to respond to the problem of lead poisoning. It’s a welcome development for some who criticized DHHS earlier this year for failing to act more...
April 7, 2016 By A.J. Higgins MPBN Maine Gov. Paul LePage is refusing to authorize funding for a $15 million senior housing bond approved by Maine voters last fall. LePage said Wednesday night that there are problems with the bond and that unless its language...
March 18, 2016 Lewiston Sun Journal By Scott Thistle AUGUSTA — In a letter to lawmakers this week, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control said his agency would not move quickly to implement lower blood-lead standards. CDC Director Ken Albert said...
