Real Estate
Portland Tenant Union Wins $3.6 Million Rent Settlement
Landlord Geoffrey Rice will roll back rents at 19 Portland properties and repay more than a thousand current and former tenants.
City of Portland
Maine Business Wire has published 5 stories about City of Portland, the first on September 26, 2026 and the most recent on October 21, 2026.
What we have reported
October 21, 2026
Portland Tenant Union Wins $3.6 Million Rent Settlement
Landlord Geoffrey Rice will roll back rents at 19 Portland properties and repay more than a thousand current and former tenants.
October 20, 2026
Portland Revisits Bloomberg Grant Worth up to $750,000 for Housing
The City of Portland has revived consideration of a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant worth up to $750,000 to speed housing development, WGME reported on October 21, 2026.
- City
- Portland
- Grant
- Bloomberg Philanthropies, up to $750,000
- Purpose
- Accelerate housing development
October 13, 2026
Portland Weighs Oxford Street Site for Winter Warming Shelter
Seeds of Hope, a Biddeford nonprofit, has offered to run the roughly $600,000 operation from November through April.
October 7, 2026
Portland Shelter Skipped Required Night Patrols, Citing Danger Outside
An annual City of Portland inspection of Elena's Way, the 40-bed low-barrier shelter Preble Street runs at 5 Portland St., found the nonprofit was not carrying out hourly nighttime walks around the outside of the building that its approved safety plan requires, according to the Portland Press Herald, which obtained the report.
September 26, 2026
Portland Minor League Teams Add $100M To City Economy
Mayor Mark Dion cited a study crediting the four teams with jobs and spending gains.
