A co-living startup offers a new sleeping-pod design to allow up to 14 residents to share a home. The first two sites are in Palo Alto and Bakersfield, California, where rents are on the rise. Homes are fully furnished, with common workspaces, shared kitchens, and two bathrooms. Loading Something is […]
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A Lewiston organization led by residents broke ground this week for two new buildings that will create 18 units of affordable housing. The development is partnership between Raise-Op, a residential housing cooperative, and Evernorth, a regional syndicator of affordable housing, with financing from MaineHousing. Lewiston Housing will provide property management services, […]
When Allan Smith and Chanda Woodworth got evicted from their rent-subsidized apartment, it began a long journey of living in hotels and eventually on the street before settling into a new tiny home community. The journey there wasn’t easy. “Our blankets and pillows would get wet,” she said in an interview […]
The numbers are startling. Millions of Americans have quit their jobs during the pandemic, an unprecedented mass exodus being called The Great Resignation as the pandemic jolted people coast to coast into making sweeping career and lifestyle changes. The months of enforced confinement, the fear of looming mortality, the experience […]