A pilot program launched in 2024 helped more than 1,280 households avoid eviction.
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A Portland nonprofit says it helped dozens of immigrant families avoid eviction. Hundreds more are at risk.
Project Home says nearly 700 households have applied for rent or mortgage assistance after a sudden loss of income caused by the recent ICE surge. Some advocates have called for a statewide moratorium on evictions.
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Maine housing advocates warn of coming ‘tsunami’ of USDA foreclosures on rural homes
The Department of Agriculture says it’s clearing a backlog of 400 foreclosures and more than 800 delinquencies left by the Biden administration. But local housing advocates say the crisis was years in the making and that the USDA has always been slow to act when its borrowers default.