October 4, 2016 PRESS RELEASE Contact: Sherrin Vail, MREMA President (cell: 415-7529) sherrinvail@yahoo.com Portland, Maine – Maine Real Estate Managers Association (MREMA), the largest apartment association in Maine, is renewing its call for the release of the...
September 16, 2016 By Andrew Flowers FiveThirtyEight “In 2013, everything crumbled all at once,” Makera Meng said. She and her husband ran a business — an international grocery store — in South Portland, Maine, where they also owned a home. But that year, her mom died...
July 26, 2016 By Emily Badger Washington Post At the very bottom of the housing market, where families live on a fraction of what the typical American household makes, the math simply doesn’t add up. The market can serve up old homes, mobile homes, homes that...
July 5, 2016 By Kelly Bouchard Press Herald The immediate need for at least 9,000 apartments for low-income older Mainers has resulted in a stalemate between Republican Gov. Paul LePage and his Democratic adversaries. Gov. Paul LePage and his adversaries agree that...
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...
