Maine's biggest low-income housing builder is pivoting to condos

Maine's biggest low-income housing builder is pivoting to condos

These homebuying hopefuls, often aged between 30 and 40 and making well over their area’s median income, represent the "missing middle."

Maine's biggest low-income housing builder is pivoting to condos

The students in Nicole DiGeronimo’s first-time homebuyer classes are increasingly older with a little more money saved up. They still can’t buy a home in Maine. “These are people that probably never anticipated it would be so difficult to purchase a home,” DiGeronimo, who directs Avesta Housing’s homeownership center, said. These homebuying hopefuls, often aged between 30 and 40 and making well over their area’s median income, represent the “mis…