Family Harbor House
The Transitional Housing Program
of the Midcoast Maine Homeless Coalition
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MMHC opened Family Harbor House on January 3 of this year. This transitional housing facility is in 2,200 square feet of space at Belfast United Methodist Church. MMHC has signed a lease with the church and a required zoning and ordinance change has been approved by the City Council and the Planning Board. Modifications to the building included updating two half bathrooms to full bathrooms, dividing one large room into two sleeping rooms, updating a kitchen, adding a washer and dryer, and installing fire doors and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Whitecap Builders donated design and labor costs and Viking Lumber donated materials.
A Photographic Record of Progress
Cathy Gray, a Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of MMHC, is painting the walls of one of the four living units at Family Harbor House.
(October 4, 2025)
Mary Sullivan, Secretary of the Board of Directors of MMHC, puts finishing touches one a housing unit wall in the final stages of preparing Family Harbor House for use.
(October 4, 2025)
Joe Calista, an MMHC board member, and also a trustee of Belfast United Methodist Church, is filing holes in the wall left from previous wall hangings, In a day or two, these walls will be painted.
(October 3, 2025)
The kitchen is coming together! The sink is now in, the stove and refrigerator are ready to install, and the washer/dryer will be in place by the end of the day. Here, Kevin and Sean, of Whitecap Builders, are finalizing the vent pipe for the kitchen stovetop ventilator.
(October 3, 2025)
Paul Kendrick of Topline Painting has volunteered to use his professional skills to help with other volunteers to paint all the walls of the new facility -- four living units, a common room, a kitchen, office, two bathrooms, and the hallway. Here, Paul is nearly finished with one of the living units.
(September 27, 2025)
Tony, a professional floorer, just finished adding vinyl baseboard in the hallway and the living units, and now is repairing the kitchen floor along one of the base cabinets. Soon, the floors will be polished and the kitchen appliances will be installed.
(September 27, 2025)
Here is one of the family living spaces, with a new wall installed, power completed, waiting for paint, floor cleaning, and furniture.
(September 18, 2025)
At an awards breakfast at the Samoset Resort, MMHC board vice-chair Cathy Gray (left) and board chair Kathy Muzzy (right) accept a donation of $15,000 from Jay Foster of United Midcoast Charities.
(September 16, 2025)
The drywall is almost finished in the new wall between two living units. Soon, the doors will go in.
(September 6, 2025)
Here is one of the two new showers added to the living units.
(September 6, 2025)
Here is the plan for one wall of the new kitchen.
(September 2, 2025)
The electrical work has begun on the new walls dividing a large area into two living units.
(September 2, 2025)
The kitchen cabinets have been installed. The countertop and the sink will come next.
(August 26, 2025)
This will soon be one of the four family living spaces.
(August 26, 2025)
This will be a common room - for socializing and for computer use for homework and job searches.
(August 26, 2025)
This playground is part of the facility that will house Family Harbor House, transitional housing for families.
(August 22, 2025)
The lower level of this building will be the home of Family Harbor House, temporary housing for 3-4 families in need.
(August 22, 2025)
One of the new showers being built for the transitional housing units. Two bathrooms with showers are being added to the housing area of the building.
(August 19, 2025)
A Whitecap Builders carpenter and a plumber prepare to re-build a bathroom and add a shower.
(August 14, 2025)
Workers from Whitecap Builders create a wall that will define two family living units. Two other rooms for housing were already in place.
(August 12, 2025)
Workers have their plans laid out for them - new rooms, new bathrooms, re-build the kitchen.
(August 12, 2025)
It Begins! - MMHC board members Cathy Gray, Mary Sullivan, and Joe Calista pick up the first 5-gallon bucket of paint for the new transitional housing units.
(August 6, 2025)
MMHC Board Chair Kathy Muzzy and Co-vice-chair Cathy Gray operate the MMHC table at the Resistance Faire held at the UU Church in Belfast.
(May 10, 2025)