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The Old Orchard Beach residents formed the Seacoast Village Cooperative and matched the $40.4 million offer but learned Thursday that it had been rejected.
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A few months ago, residents at two mobile home communities in Old Orchard Beach learned that their parks were being sold to an unknown buyer for $40 million. Now, the residents are trying to purchase the communities themselves. And a growing number of mobile home communities in Maine are facing similar challenges.
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A new bill would allow the state to convey the three empty facilities in Biddeford, Sanford and York to local housing authorities for their own redevelopment projects.
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Advocates for the measure say they believe the law could reduce the stigma associated with manufactured and mobile homes and allow more Mainers to achieve homeownership for the first time.
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At least three towns in Maine had initiatives on Tuesday's ballot that would have paved the way for more affordable and workforce housing in their communities. But voters in Cumberland and Kingfield soundly rejected those plans.
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As Maine seeks solutions to an ongoing affordable housing crisis, some developers are seeking new space in historic mills and office buildings. But renovation costs have skyrocketed, and so the projects must rely, in part, on a state tax credit that's designed to make the numbers work.
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After years of searching for a developer to transform under-utilized retail space, the town of Kittery will demolish one of its outlet malls along Route 1 to make room for about 100 new apartments.
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Part of the money will help support asylum seekers, which is likely to encounter opposition from Republican lawmakers.
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GOP lawmakers are increasingly critical of the tens of millions spent to house asylum seekers but have yet to offer concrete alternative solutions.
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Phoenix Flats, a 45-unit apartment building in Portland, took about $16 million, roughly a dozen funding sources and four years to complete.