North Haven Sustainable Housing builds, buys, renovates and keeps homes year-round, so the island's teachers, students, builders, caretakers, fishermen, bakers and artists can stay on the island they hold together.
North Haven has plenty of houses. What it lacks is houses that a year-round family can rent or buy. The numbers tell the story.
Quality, energy-efficient rentals owned and managed by NHSH, leased to island households at below-market rents.
New and renovated homes sold below market to qualified year-round buyers, with a covenant that keeps them affordable for the next family too.
Energy audits, air sealing, insulation and window inserts that cut heating bills in one of the coldest, windiest places to keep a house warm.
Southern Harbor House, the six-bed eldercare residence NHSH built with Southern Harbor Eldercare Services, lets elders stay in the community they built.
Two rentals at 217 Main Street open by the end of 2026. Three South Shore Road lots are waiting on the Our Island Home campaign. It is the biggest build in NHSH's history, on land the island gave us.
NHSH's two newest rental units, under construction and expected to open by the end of 2026. Islanders toured them at the August 2026 Summer Reception open house.
Five to six energy-efficient homes on 11.4 acres donated by the Pingree family in 2017. Subdivision rules amended 2019, approval 2021, road and utilities 2022. Modular homes by KBS Builders of South Paris arrived June 2025. The first two three-bedroom homes sold on a sliding scale of $270,000–$470,000 to buyers chosen by public drawing in March 2025; the rest follow in 2026–2027.
An open house at 217 Main Street, then cocktails at the Pingree Boathouse at Iron Point. The island got its first look at the two rental units opening by the end of the year.
Saturday, July 18, 4–6 p.m.: a walk through one of the two homes NHSH has built on Fish Hawk Road, the first of the South Shore Road homes.
The state permitted 7,499 homes in 2025 against a 6,900 target. Only 13% were affordable, and the island-specific MaineHousing program that funded NHSH's rentals has had no new round since 2022.
Governor Mills signed a ten-year extension of the Maine Affordable Housing Tax Credit, and April's supplemental budget put more than $30 million back into the Rural Rental and Affordable Homeownership programs that ran dry last summer. The housing bond, though, failed.
Gifts of cash, securities, land and houses have built everything on this site. Because covenants keep our homes affordable forever, your gift keeps working for the next family, and the one after that.
