Homes you can buy are barely being built in Maine's biggest cities

Homes you can buy are barely being built in Maine's biggest cities

Lydia Horn has always wanted to buy a home. Making that happen meant moving out of southern Maine, so she reoriented her life to return to the Bangor area. “I was never going to be able to afford to buy a house in southern Maine,” she said. “It just felt like it was getting more and more challenging and more and more expensive.” Horn, a 33-year-old Holden native who is now a postdoc at the University of Maine, has rented all over the country as …