Stay updated with breaking news from Developers Collaborative. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Before Amanda Olson became executive director of the organization, it had no housing. It now has 76 units of rental housing in Augusta and more than 100 proposed.
City councilors Monday night advanced a plan to partner with a development company and an immigrants' rights group to operate the 180-bed shelter.
The shelter will be staffed initially by the city, with the goal of handing off operations to the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition after 18 months.
The contract was approved 8-1 for a 180-bed shelter at 166 Riverside Industrial Parkway.
The city has about nine weeks to find housing for the 88 families of asylum seekers who remain at the Portland Expo.