The Kodiak Island Borough won’t be participating in the new Kodiak Island Housing Authority development, but is working on land sales to build a path to future homebuilding.
Kodiak Island Housing Authority, Koniag, Inc. and Rural Alaska Community Action Program, or RurAL CAP are offering a proposal to solve a portion of Kodiak’s housing shortage for middle-class teachers,
Sanitary District Trustees unanimously agreed to look into hooking up with the Kennebec Sanitary Treatment District as the cheapest way to deal with the aging system.
A nonprofit is taking over a few dozen rental units in Thomaston under a first-of-its kind model for preserving affordable housing properties. State officials and housing advocates believe that same model could be used to rescue the hundreds of other federally subsidized rentals at risk of being sold across rural Maine in the coming years.