The Waterville Planning Board this week gave final approval for Head of Falls Village on Front, Temple and Appleton streets, as well as a housing project for 155 and 165 Main St.
affordable housing
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Promising solutions to Maine housing puzzle braid public with private
Long-term structural change will take time; a number of laudable new initiatives around the state acknowledge that reality.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: A lot done for Maine’s housing crisis, a lot more to do
Although policies alone will not solve the challenges we’re facing, many of them will significantly help.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Biden administration lauds new Maine law limiting rental application fees
The law signed last month puts a cap on how much landlords can charge tenants for background checks and other application screenings.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine makes headway on housing, but crisis still grows
State efforts to build more affordable housing will take time. We can’t allow Mainers to suffer in the meantime.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine makes headway on housing, but crisis still grows
State efforts to build more affordable housing will take time. We can’t allow Mainers to suffer in the meantime.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: No walls are high enough to keep out people desperate for a safe place
Instead of wasting precious time trying to shut today’s refugees out, we can prepare for them in a way that could benefit all of us.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville board to hear final plans for downtown housing projects
The Planning Board later this month will take up two separate proposals that between them would bring about 80 housing units to downtown.
Posted inLocal & State, News
They couldn’t find an apartment in Portland. So they got a bus.
But after two years, it hasn’t been the adventurous solution Jeremy and Taylor Michelson had imagined. Their home has been idled outside a U-Haul facility, racking up thousands of dollars in parking tickets.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville mill redevelopment plan on hold as developer grapples with construction costs, financing
It is not clear when the more than $30 million project will resume to transform the former Lockwood-Duchess Mill building closest to the Ticonic Bridge into affordable apartments and space for commercial and retail uses.