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This group is for any tenants who live in properties either owned and /or managed by AVESTA Housing.

AVESTA Housing is one of Maine’s largest housing developers and management companies.  Their website’s staff directory lists 87 employees.  They own and/or manage over 50 properties representing nearly 2,000 tenants in southern Maine.

Formerly known as York-Cumberland Affordable Housing Corporation, they are now, AVESTA Housing – www.avestahousing.org

Tenants everywhere have rights via the US Constitution, laws (state & federal), municipal ordinances and housing codes, federal rules & regs (HUD, EPA, etc.), state rules & regs (Maine Housing, Maine DEP, Maine State Bureau of Pesticides Control, etc.)

Sometimes tenants forget they have rights.  When we do not exercise our rights, they weaken. 

Often, large bureaucracies find tenants rights annoying, cumbersome, and expensive – so, they seem to conveniently (for them) forget that tenants have rights.

Tenants can help each other to remember to exercise their rights.

Tenants can help bureaucracies – both large & small – to remember that tenants have rights which must be observed (this is not optional).

So, join us & let’s explore & exercise our rights together!  Together, we can facilitate communication between tenants and any bureaucracy – large or small!

CONTACT:  AvestaTenants@gmail.com

RESOURCES:

Portland Tenants Union  www.portlandtenants.org

National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT)  www.saveourhomes.org

Maine Housing Network  www.mainehousing.us

Housing NOW!  www.housingnow.net