The Maine State Housing Authority’s 2026 Housing Outlook Report reveals several positive indicators for Maine’s housing landscape but highlights how…
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The CSX railroad company began clearing a Bangor homeless encampment on Monday morning that was located on their property near…
Maine’s red-hot housing market showed fresh signs of volatility in November, as the statewide median home sale price dropped below…
The Portland City Council voted unanimously on December 15 to broaden how the city spends its Opioid Settlement Funds, expanding…
Portland city officials have hired a national consulting firm to review the city’s 10-year-old inclusionary zoning ordinance amid growing criticism…
Two out-of-state investment companies that are buying up trailer parks are among six nationwide under congressional scrutiny. The Joint Economic…
Portland’s Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a 30-story tower that would become the tallest building in Maine, clearing the…
The Maine State Fire Marshal is investigating a fatal fire at a Sumner home that was powered exclusively by solar…
Data shared by the Maine State Housing Authority shows that Mainers from the northern-most parts of the state have so…
The East-Central Maine version of liberal Portland, besieged like its southern big-sister city with rag-tag “homeless” encampments, is going high…
With temperatures expected to plunge into dangerous territory beginning Thursday, Portland officials will activate the city’s winter warming center, a…
Beginning Wednesday, December 3, the Maine State Housing Authority will be opening its Energy Crisis Intervention Program (ECIP) for the…
Portland Mayor Mark Dion is sounding the alarm over the city’s worsening homelessness crisis, warning that the state’s largest city…
Residents of Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park in Arundel are bracing for a sharp rent increase set to take effect…
Single-family homes in Cumberland County, Maine became significantly more expensive in October, underscoring a growing inventory and persistent demand in…
A trio of squatters fled from an abandoned home in Augusta on Saturday after it caught fire, authorities say. [RELATED:…
The State of Maine has joined a coalition of 20 other states in suing the U.S. Department of Housing and…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) and the Maine State Housing Authority announced Friday that the state has secured financing for 311…
A widely-followed Bangor cab driver who has been publicly obsessing about buying a particular abandoned log cabin has lost his…
Maine’s top housing and public health officials issued an extraordinary warning Monday about how a new federal mcap would affect…
Despite dozens of approved projects and strong demand for new housing, several major developments in Portland are stalled as rising…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced Wednesday that an initial round of Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) payments will be…
Police in Paris, Maine, arrested two alleged drug abusers on Monday while enforcing a writ of possession to remove squatters…
A blunt assertion by entrepreneur Elon Musk has reignited debate over whether nonprofits are truly reducing homelessness and drug addiction…
Rent control could be coming to Brunswick if Ramona Thieme, the only candidate across the state currently running to receive…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced Wednesday that the Energy Crisis Intervention Program (ECIP) will not be opening on November…
A rooming house at 33 Birch Ave. in Ellsworth has become a flashpoint for neighborhood frustration after years of complaints…
Experts suggest that buyers and sellers in Maine’s housing market are on a more level playing field this fall with…
Chicken magnate Frank Perdue’s marketing genius killed Belfast, Maine as the Chicken Capital of the World – but his magic…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) and the Maine State Housing Authority announced Tuesday that $2.3 million worth of state grants will…
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The City of Lewiston condemned a building used by the Church of Safe Injection (CoSI) non-profit last Wednesday after police…
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After the publication of this article, the Maine Housing Authority responded to a request for comment from The Maine Wire.…
A deputy fire chief at the Gilead Volunteer Fire Department was arrested last Friday after he allegedly set his own…
Maine released its annual Child Welfare Report for 2024 last month, which details changes the state asserts it has achieved…
The Portland Planning Board is close to approving an “affordable housing” complex on city land targeted towards “diverse families and…
Despite a relative flatlining of year-on-year real estate prices nationwide, Maine home sales are up from where they were last…
Mainers need to make over $45,000 annually on average to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the state, and they need…
The Portland City Council voted Monday night to spend $15 million in order to open the door for future development…
While a new report from a state agency shows a slight decrease in homeless persons in Maine compared to the…
A Maine camp with real connections to famed secret agent James Bond has just hit the market – for a…
Residents of Owls Head, a small town in mid-coast Maine, have seen their property tax bills skyrocket this year. Because…
Homes in Maine are 6.52 percent more expensive right now than they were at this same time last year, selling…
Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations may soon begin cropping up in more housing developments and condo associations throughout Maine in…
The Maine State Housing Authority (MaineHousing) last week announced that they have awarded over $13 million in state subsidies to…
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) has slipped a tax change into the spending bill Democrats will pass before adjourning the…
A proposal by a Knox County Democrat legislator for a “regional living wage” – supposedly to help people afford housing…
The nanny state is now coming after a Camden man whose bird-feeding hobby town authorities say far exceeds the norm…
Maine lawmakers are poised to reject along nearly partisan lines a proposal to reinstate the municipal property tax levy limits…
Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) is seeking regulatory changes to affordable housing law in the state with…
The Maine State Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee heard public testimony Tuesday on a bill that would make it…
The number of homes available for sale in Maine has increased substantially since last year, and home prices have also…
Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would exempt Maine seniors from paying property taxes. LD 1541 was sponsored by…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced a bill that aims to provide property tax relief to Maine homeowners, as…
A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers have introduced a bill aiming to increase the value of the state’s Property Tax…
Both nationally, and especially in places like Maine, housing is becoming unaffordable for too many. This trend kills the American…
Maine lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected three proposals to increase the state’s homestead exemption, a program designed…
The Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services Committee met on Thursday to discuss various options related to how the…
A public hearing has now been set for a bill seeking to revitalize a now-defunct property tax stabilization program for…
In an effort to address the affordable housing crunch, the Maine State Housing Authority has awarded $23.5 million in Rural…
A group of Democratic lawmakers are looking to give Mainers who do not have a permanent residence an alternative means…
A Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would revitalize the now-defunct property tax stabilization program with several key amendments.…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) wants the state to either purchase or use eminent domain to seize control of the Bangor…
Democrat lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that aims to prohibit “housing discrimination” based on a person’s source of…
A group of Maine Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow municipalities to adopt a local option sales…
Maine is currently facing a significant housing crisis, and researchers at a state-based think tank have written a report illustrating…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), along with co-sponsor Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), is aiming to fight the housing crisis with grants…
University of Southern Maine wants to make sure that new students are comfortable in their space or else it might…
A contractor who’s suffered lengthy zoning delays on a $15 million Portland-area project is now wondering whether it’ll ever get…
Delinquent Maine property taxpayers just got a gift from the newly elected Democrat state treasurer. But guess who has to…
Maine lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that would incrementally increase the state’s property tax homestead exemption over the next…
At its upcoming meeting on Monday, the Portland City Council will consider issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the…
Maine’s housing market is looking promising for buyers in the final month of 2024 despite prices increasing substantially in comparison…
Two months after launch and one month after moving to waiting list procedures due to high demand, the Maine State…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced this past Wednesday that the agency had awarded $12.8 million worth of state and…
The South Portland City Council unanimously approved the creation of a new Tax Increment Financing District (TIF District) and thirty…
Socialist Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes’ proposal for a task force to study how city might utilize a new “social…
Two Portland City Councilors are seeking to put a 180-day prohibition on the approval of new hotel projects in the…
Homes in Maine are 8.68 percent more expensive than this time last year — reaching a median sale price of…
On Monday morning, the Maine State Housing Authority launched an Eviction Prevention Pilot Program designed to “help tenants who may…
The number of veterans experiencing homelessness in Maine nearly quadrupled from 2021 to 2022, and remains at levels higher than…
A September report published by a state-level advisory committee argues that Maine must “incrementally increase the number of housing units…
The City of Portland is set to conduct a revaluation of residential properties over the course of next year, the…
U.S. Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Jerry Moran (R-Kans.) have introduced the Farmhouse-to-Workforce Housing Act, a piece of legislation aimed…
Maine homes are 7.53 percent more expensive than they were in August of 2023 — now reaching a median sale…
Amid discussion regarding recent property tax hikes at a South Portland City Council meeting last month, Mayor Misha Pride suggested…
A Bangor-based homelessness fundraising organization is propagating educational materials aimed at helping homeless individuals avoid arrest for a variety of…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced Monday that a combined $2 million from the state’s Emergency Housing Relief Fund (EHRF)…
The city of Portland has ordered a property owner to clean up a hazardous waste site left behind by an…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council is currently considering a recommendation from the Ordinance Committee to expand the local Senior Tax…
Wells voters overwhelmingly approved an ordinance Tuesday establishing a temporary moratorium on large-scale residential developments. According to the unofficial results…
The controversial Yard South project in South Portland submitted its application to the city for a contract zone Wednesday. If…
Several towns in Southern Maine have “donated” a total of nearly $200,000 in support of a project to build a…
President Joe Biden announced a new plan on Tuesday to set government-imposed limits on housing prices for some rental units,…
A 17-year-old male was found dead at the scene of a shooting in Lewiston on Sunday, one of three shooting…
Sen. Angus King (I) announced Thursday that he has signed onto a bill encouraging owners of manufactured housing parks to…
Biddeford is taking action to clear homeless encampments throughout the city following an influential U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision allowing…
New Hampshire’s largest city, Manchester, has begun enforcing a new ban on homeless encampments in public parks and on streets…