Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
(The Center Square) — Chronic workforce shortages and a lack of affordable housing are throttling down Maine's economic growth, according to a new report that calls for increased funding and ...
The housing crisis in Maine is too big, and hits too many people, to pass up the opportunity. The bill passed a legislative committee this week, but only after two of its most ... EDITORIAL: A lot ...
Feb. 6—Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque remembers when he was a kid, riding around with his single mom, imagining what it would be like to live in one of the city's nicer homes. Eight years ago, he ...
Aug. 14—When Redbank Village Apartments started raising rents as much as 35% last spring, South Portland city councilors scrambled to enact a six-month emergency rent cap to keep increases at no ...
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
Los Angeles voters approved a new half-cent sales tax for housing development, while Charlotte, North Carolina, passed a $100 million housing bond package. Baltimore followed with a $20 million ...
Gerald Edgerton Talbot (born October 28, 1931) is an American civil rights leader, author, and politician from Portland, Maine.Talbot was the first Black legislator to serve in the state of Maine, the founding president of the Portland, Maine, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and was president of the Maine State Board of Education under ...
The Maine Video Activists Network (MVAN) was a monthly video newsreel produced by activists throughout the state of Maine in the United States.It was an extension of the Indymedia movement, in which grassroots organizers and average citizens produce their own media content and distribute it through non-commercial avenues such as the internet, Public-access television, print, and radio.