MaineHousing

Construction has begun on the Lambert Woods North apartments in Portland, part of an affordable housing development which will eventually include 162 apartments.

Eligible households can receive a one-time heating benefit of up to $500 if they face an emergency, according to MaineHousing.

Federal and state tax credits will be used to finance dwellings for older adults and families across eight development sites in the cities of Biddeford, Belfast, Lewiston, Portland, South Portland and Rockland.

A new development will offer 48 condominiums at prices ranging from $378,000 to $425,000 to eligible buyers — households who make no more than 120% of the area mean income.

Construction of two affordable housing developments has finished up in Rockland and Augusta — part of the push in both cities and across Maine to tackle the shortage of homes.

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses, nonprofits, health care operations and professional services firms in Maine.

Some 7,000 Maine households that depend on the Low-Income Heating Assistance Program would be affected if the government shutdown continues.

The program used $20 million in state funding to subsidize construction of 276 homes offered at prices affordable to middle-income households.

The development, for adults aged 55 and older, is part of a larger campus dating back to 1999 and now totaling 175 units.

Maine Cooperative Development Partners is installing the first phase of a 20-unit affordable condominium project off Douglass Street. Modular units are being built at KBS Builders’ South Paris factory and installed by Brunswick-based Backyard ADUs.