The Latest from Island Housing Trust

Updates on Homes, Projects, and People

ONE Home Still Available in Town Hill!

We are pleased to announce that one home remains available in Town Hill, Bar Harbor.

This saltbox-style home, built in 2022, offers approximately 1,100 square feet of living space with three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. Features include first-floor living with a kitchen, primary bedroom and bath, a half bath with laundry hookup, hardwood flooring, wood siding, a metal roof, heat pumps, a Rinnai heater, and toe-kick heaters in the bathrooms.

The home sits on just over 2.5 acres of private woods and is being sold under a land lease with affordability covenants to IHT-eligible applicants.

Applications are now being accepted.

To learn more or request an application, please contact Natalie Osborne at nosborne@islandhousingtrust.org or call 207-244-8011.

Farewell, Mud Season

But before Mud Season slips away, help us raise the final $9,000 and unlock the full $25,000 match.

We're 81% of the way to our Mud Season Challenge goal, with just $9,000 left to raise. Reaching our goal will unlock an additional $25,000 matching gift generously provided by James Clark, Susanna Porter, Lydia Goetze, the Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation, Sam Hamill, and Mike and Mary Ann Siklosi.

As we bid farewell to Mud Season, we're asking our community to help us finish strong. Every gift brings us closer to unlocking these matching funds and creating even greater impact.

Support from the Mud Season Challenge benefits Island Housing Trust's Opportunities Fund, providing the flexibility to act when opportunities arise, from preserving existing housing to advancing projects that strengthen our year-round community.

Progress at Ripples Hill

Construction is moving forward at Ripples Hill Phase 3, with the first two homes now set on their foundations. This exciting milestone brings us one step closer to more year-round housing opportunities for Mount Desert Island's workforce.

This progress is made possible by the generosity of our donors and the commitment of a community that believes the people who work, serve, and strengthen our island deserve a place to call home. Future homeowners include teachers, healthcare workers, small business employees, park staff, and others who help sustain our year-round community.

We look forward to sharing more updates throughout the summer as construction continues and these homes move closer to welcoming their new residents.

Your Support Opens Doors…for those we rely on to live, work, and go to school year-round on MDI.

From the classroom to the hospital, from our homes to our harbors—MDI depends on people who are here year-round. But more and more, those who keep this island running are finding it harder to stay.

Your gift helps open the door to safe, stable, and year-round homes affordable for essential workers and their families.

Together, we’re not just building housing—we’re making room for the people who make this island home.

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Our Impact

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A few words from a Homeowner

“Without Island Housing Trust, we may have had to re-locate and move our family off Mount Desert Island. With our families close by, we want to raise our children here. Our children benefit from the excellent school system. Each of us have a short commute to work on the Island. Island Housing Trust has helped us keep our mortgage affordable.”