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...
March 11, 2016 BDN Maine By Michael Sheperd Gov. Paul LePage has been under pressure to release $15 million in bonds to build housing for elderly Mainers. The bonds were approved by nearly 70 percent of voters in 2015, but LePage hasn’t said that he’ll authorize their...
March 11, 2016 BDN Maine By The BDN Editorial Board Housing and rental prices are on the rise, and apartment vacancy rates are near zero in Portland, highlighting the city’s popularity as a place to live, work and retire. In many ways, these are positive signs for the...
March 9, 2016 BDN Maine By Scott Thistle AUGUSTA, Maine — A bipartisan group of Lewiston-Auburn lawmakers is again asking the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to pick up the pace on implementing new lead-poisoning standards that were passed into law more...
March 3, 2016 Portland Press Herald By Eric Russell AUGUSTA — A legislative committee gave preliminary approval Thursday to a measure that would create a single statewide waiting list and online application to obtain federal housing assistance through the program...
March 3, 2016 Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel Rich Livingston, President, AARP Maine Despite its passage months ago, the bond funds earmarked for older Mainers in need of affordable housing have yet to be released. Maine State Housing Authority awaits word from Gov....
February 28, 2016 Portland Press Herald By Amy Gallant and Sherrin Vail To enable more Mainers to age in their own homes, Gov. LePage should release the voter-approved money at once. It appears that the satisfaction over passage of the statewide senior...
February 28, 2016 BDN By Mark Eves, Special to the BDN Last week, the Maine State Housing Authority Board of Directors wrote a letter to Gov. Paul LePage, asking for guidance on when and if he would release voter-approved bonds for affordable senior housing passed by...
February 27, 2016 Bangor Daily News By the BDN Editorial Board The need for additional affordable housing for Maine’s senior residents is clear: A recent study found that 9,000 households headed by someone over 55 are on waiting lists for housing that is within their...
February 26, 2016 Bangor Daily News By Meg Haskell, BDN Staff By the time Cecile Lyle, a 75-year-old widow in Sanford, pays the $800 rent and utility bills each month for the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her physically disabled daughter, Madeleine, there’s...
February 23, 2016 Journal Tribune By Tammy Wells, Senior Staff Writer The Maine Affordable Housing Coalition is expressing frustration that a $15 million bond that would provide safe, affordable housing to 225 senior citizens has not released by Gov. Paul LePage four...
February 22, 2016 Media Alert: For Immediate Release Contact: Greg Payne, Maine Affordable Housing Coalition, (207)756-0751 PORTLAND – Following over three months of inaction since nearly 70% of Maine voters approved a $15 million general obligation bond to build...
