The Portland Housing Authority has received the lion’s share of a $5.4 million federal grant package given to several housing authorities in Maine.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Department announced Thursday that it had awarded a total of $1.8 billion to public housing authorities across all 50 states, along with the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The federal grants are part of HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which provides annual funding to housing authorities for the development of affordable public housing.
Maine’s $5.4 million share of federal funding was split between 20 housing authorities:
• Auburn Housing Authority, $ 204,961
• Bar Harbor Housing Authority, $ 152,825
• Bath Housing Authority, $ 119,580
• Brewer Housing Authority, $ 180,561
• Brunswick Housing Authority, $ 230,798
• Ellsworth Housing Authority, $ 62,525
• Fort Fairfield Housing Authority, $ 106,202
• Housing Authority, City of Bangor, $ 871,379
• Lewiston Housing Authority, $ 538,339
• Mount Desert Housing Authority, $ 20,775
• Old Town Housing Authority, $ 99,855
• Portland Housing Authority, $ 1,463,919
• Presque Isle Housing Authority, $ 277,005
• Sanford Housing Authority, $ 159,297
• South Portland Housing Authority, $ 390,800
• Southwest Harbor Housing Authority, $ 60,618
• The Housing Authority of the City of Westbrook, $ 76,475
• Tremont Housing Authority, $ 25,751
• Van Buren Housing Authority, $ 131,372
• Waterville Housing Authority, $ 260,822
