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Given the urgency of housing and homeless challenges, Mayor Kate Lewis welcomed the pending completion of West End II.

The council also has enacted an eviction moratorium and rent cap, and it's working on a rent control proposal and zoning changes that would allow nonprofits to open homeless shelters in the city. The South Portland City Council has extended the deadline to April 30 for when the hotels must resume normal operations allowed under their municipal licenses. About 800 homeless individuals and asylum seekers are being sheltered in South Portland hotels. A recent influx of families have slept sitting in chairs in the city's crowded family shelter. Portland is providing emergency shelter to more than 950 people nightly, including homeless individuals and asylum seekers. The new housing comes as high numbers of new Mainers continue to come into Portland. Avesta has no active plans to develop additional housing for asylum seekers, Harmon said. Harmon said 20% of Avesta's 3,300 apartments in southern Maine and New Hampshire are leased to recent immigrants, including asylum seekers.Īvesta tried to secure additional housing for asylum seekers by purchasing Winchester Woods, a 48-unit apartment complex under construction in Portland's East Deering neighborhood, but that deal fell through. 'In this case, the preference was asylum seekers experiencing homelessness,' he said. 'We received over 1,000 applications for 52 apartments,' Harmon said.Īvesta also gives preference to people who are homeless, veterans, disabled or over age 60, he said.

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Tamarron with 132 units at 18101 Marksman Circle in Olney.īaltimore Sun reporter Lillian Reed and The Associated Press contributed to this article.While the apartments aren't permanently reserved for asylum seekers, Harmon said, Avesta gave preference to migrants who have been housed in local hotels because Portland's emergency shelters are full and affordable apartments are scarce in southern Maine.

Westchester West with 345 units at 3214 Hewitt Ave.

Peppertree Farm with 879 units and Cinnamon Run with 511 units at 14120 Weeping Willow Dr.

Village Square with 370 units at 8096 Crainmont Dr.

Cambridge Court with 544 units at 386 Attenborough Dr.Top Field with 156 units at 10701 Cardington Way in Cockysville.Saddle Brooke with 468 units at 307 Foxfire Place in Cockysville.Ridgeview at Wakefield Valley with 204 units at 800 S.Owings Run with 504 units at 4604 Owings Run Rd.Middlebrooke with 208 units at 410 Baldwin Park Dr.Heritage Woods with 164 units at 700 Heritage Ln.Country Village with 344 units at 201 Idlewild Rd.Charleston Place with 858 units at 3182 Normandy Woods Dr.Canterbury with 618 units at 9206 Oswald Way in Rosedale.Annapolis Roads with 282 units at 1 Eaglewood Rd.It could not be determined which - if any, some or all - were sold to Kushner Cos. If the court grants the plaintiffs class-action status, any Westminster tenants who have been charged “illegal and excessive fees” could join the lawsuit, Hill said.Ī review by The Baltimore Sun of online property tax records shows at least 19 complexes in Maryland affiliated with Lone Star’s Home Properties.

Hill said the plaintiffs in the case “continue to be very concerned with the illegal and excessive fee practices of Westminster Management, particularly if those practices are going to expand with Westminster into new properties in Maryland.”