reaching housing goals
From new construction and renovation to energy audits and winterization, NHSH has helped expand year-round housing opportunities and make homes more efficient since 2006. NHSH has provided housing for 32 individuals, audited and weatherized nearly 50 homes, and helped to keep 12 families on island. Additionally, we have worked with Southern Harbor Eldercare Services to keep our elders on island and provide jobs for our community.
CHECK OUT OUR PAST PROJECTS
15 MULLINS LANE
In early 2022, North Haven Sustainable Housing recognized an important opportunity to acquire a home in the center of the downtown district. Ensuring that this home remains part of the year round housing stock is important to NHSH in an effort both to help maintain the vitality of downtown, as well as to secure this home to support the efforts of the North Haven Community School. NHSH is working with the North Haven Community School to provide housing for the Offshore Year magnet program, a program that hopes to bring students to North Haven for a unique one year experience to study and live in our island community. During the school year this home will provide housing for students in the Offshore Year program, as well as the Offshore Coordinator who has been hired to help develop and grow the program. In the summertime, the house will be occupied by employees of community organizations and businesses to provide housing for seasonal staff. In addition to general property improvements, NHSH is beginning to develop plans to expand the housing opportunities that this home can offer, including a renovation of the garage apartment into a separate housing unit.
Our largest project to date is the development of an eldercare facility for the community of North Haven. This project was a partnership with Southern Harbor Eldercare Services (SHES), who now owns and operates the facility. To learn more about the project, check out our Eldercare page, and visit the SHES website to see where they are now.
This home was sold to North Haven Sustainable Housing for a reduced price by generous island residents, and then received a full energy-efficiency upgrade and thorough interior and exterior renovations. The sale of this home is pending and we plan to close on it soon.
THE DYER HOUSE
Named after its previous owner, the "Dyer House" is a year-round duplex rental that was renovated from 2011-2012 to house two families. This three-story home was developed with significant support from a Maine State Housing Grant grant as well as the Genesis Community Loan Fund.
166 MAIN STREET
This home was originally built in the early 20th century, and was renovated by NHSH in 2008. This is a three bedroom home that has housed two different island families.
565 SOUTH SHORE ROAD
In 2006, North Haven Sustainable Housing's first project, 565 South Shore Road, was built from the ground up on 2.5 acres of donated land. The home is owned by Bill Trevaskis and Courtney Naliboff who have lived at the home since 2007.
180 MAIN STREET
North Haven Sustainable Housing assisted a seasonal land-owner in selling this property to qualified year-round residents for a reduced-market price. NHSH advertised the home, selected the qualified buyer and assisted the landowner in the sales process. The house now has an affordability covenant which seeks to ensure that the property will remain occupied by year-round residents who are qualified if re-sold in the future.
This property is a 3-acre wooded lot that was sold to a year-round resident in partnership with North Haven Conservation Partners and a generous seasonal family. North Haven Sustainable Housing’s role was to advertise the property for sale, solicit applications from buyers, and select a qualified year-round buyer. The property also contains an affordability covenant to ensure it stays in the year-round community in the future.
ENERGY AUDITS AND WEATHERIZATION WORK
North Haven Sustainable Housing has undertaken nearly fifty energy audits and weatherization upgrades to existing homes all over the island. By hiring independent contractors, NHSH has been able to subsidize bringing older structures up to par by conducting blower door tests and using infrared cameras to analyze and seal leaky basements, attics, seams and doors. NHSH has also subsidized major insulation projects for qualified individuals and families. If you are interested in an energy audit or other weatherization work, please contact us.
STORM WINDOW WORKSHOPS
NHSH has held several storm window-building workshops since 2013 after a visit from the Island Institute during their Energy Conference. Since then, with volunteer assistance, NHSH has built over a hundred removable storm windows for older homes around the island during these open workshops. Contact NHSH if you are interested in building storm windows for your island home.