Stories Related to Affordable Housing Project Needs $200,000 From Bangor

Bangor’s city council will take up a measure on Monday to approve $200,000 in grant funding to help community nonprofit Penquis build another affordable housing project in the city. The project, initially announced in February 2020, will create 39 new units of affordable multi-family housing on about 5 acres of private land on Milford Street Extension, the short road that runs from Essex Street to the Mary Snow School. It will also fold in a now-canceled 39-unit older adult housing project that was to be a partnership between Penquis and St.