Social Housing Pilot — 0 Cornell Street
Portland
Description
A proposed city-owned, mixed-income rental development of about 40 units on city-owned land, recommended as one of two pilot projects.
Impact summary
Could add 40 family-sized, permanently affordable rentals in Morrills Corner at an estimated $12–15 million cost, mostly paid back through rents.
Applicant
- Address
- 0 Cornell Street, Portland, Maine
At a glance
- Hearings
- 2
- Public comments
- 0
- Total mentions
- 2
Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Sep 28, 2026.
Meeting timeline (2)
City Council - Sep 28, 2026
A proposed city-owned pilot with about 40 mixed-income apartment units in four buildings on roughly three acres of city-owned land. The site likely needs environmental cleanup — a 2008 report found arsenic and lead contamination from a former billiard-ball manufacturer.
Social Housing Task Force - May 13, 2026
A conceptual plan for four three-story, ten-unit buildings — 40 apartments total, weighted toward two- and three-bedroom family units — on the city-owned Cornell Street brownfield, funded by a self-repaying city revenue bond. Nothing has been formally filed yet; environmental testing comes first.
Related issues (1)
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