As Maine’s real estate market booms, refugees, asylum seekers and the groups that work with them are finding it more difficult to secure affordable housing. And this problem is echoed around the country where previously affordable cities are becoming desirable to remote workers. Reporter Ari Snider talked to several recent arrivals in Maine about the struggle to find housing, and to one group that has a creative solution.
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