They trekked through snowy fields and wooded areas, along icy roads and railroad tracks, up slippery embankments and down slushy paths. Six teams of volunteers and social service workers fanned out across Portland on Wednesday night to conduct the city’s annual point-in-time count of homeless people as required by the U.S. Department of Housing and

It can’t be said enough that New York’s homelessness crisis is complicated. In a city where people are squeezed beyond their means by rising rents, just one of any number of additional stresses — a lost job, sickness, addiction, domestic violence — can propel a family into the shelter system or the street. The problem

Five New Hampshire housing initiatives have been awarded nearly $5.5 million in grants, loans and interest-rate subsidies through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s 2016 Affordable Housing Program. All told, the bank announced that 45 projects in New England will receive $56.4 million in assistance. The funds will be used to finance 1,100 units

Plans to create nearly 400 new units of affordable housing in Maine will move ahead after receiving crucial financial support from a federal bank this week. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston will play a pivotal role in the development of much-needed affordable housing in 2017, providing $17.5 million in subsidies for 13 projects

Climate change poses a threat to property and infrastructure up and down the East Coast, and in Portland, residents and planners are starting to devise a response. The latest installment of our occasional series “Beyond 350: Confronting Climate Change” focuses on the growing movement toward “coastal resilience.” Portland’s Bayside neighborhood is one of the city’s

Chomba Kaluba, a resident at Avesta Housing’s mixed-income development 409 Cumberland in Portland, Maine, sat down with Affordable Housing Finance to discuss what home and community mean to him. Kaluba also is an Avesta Housing board member. Please click the link below to be redirected to video of the interview. Click here to watch the

HAMPTON FALLS, NH — Construction has begun for the Meadows at Grapevine Run, an affordable senior housing development in Hampton Falls by Avesta Housing, and will be available to rent next summer 2017. With financing help from Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB), the Meadows at Grapevine Run will offer 24 units of affordable, one-bedroom senior

WASHINGTON, DC — Fifteen nonprofit community development organizations were recognized today for their excellence in sustainable business and housing practices that are designed to save people money by NeighborWorks America. To date, 95 network members have earned the NeighborWorks Green Organization designation. This is the fifth year of the NeighborWorks Green Organization program, which recognizes

SEARSMONT — What’s coming off the assembly line at Ecocor looks a bit like a really fat, firm box spring, 18 inches thick, swathed in high performance fabrics, framed with wood, so solid that even the princess couldn’t feel a pea through it. But these are building panels, walls for prefabricated homes, very different from

Much-needed affordable housing for seniors has opened in the rural community of Gorham, Maine, in the southern part of the state. Ridgewood at Village Square, developed by Portland, Maine-based Avesta Housing, provides 24 one- and two-bedroom apartments targeted to senior households at or below 60% of the area median income. This project enhances the developer’s