Homeless sisters are 1st tenants of vacant Bangor house turned into apartments

Homeless sisters are 1st tenants of vacant Bangor house turned into apartments

Melinda Lamb and her younger sister, Sierra, moved into their first Bangor apartment together on May 1, ending four years of homelessness. The sisters are the first tenants of Design Wall Housing, a Bangor nonprofit that turns vacant, dilapidated homes into affordable housing for people who were homeless. The three-bedroom unit, which the nonprofit recently finished renovating, has given the sisters hope, Melinda Lamb said. “They’ve given us mor…