City staff and immigrants’ advocates welcome MaineHousing’s announcement about funding for 13 temporary overnight warming shelters statewide, including 3 in Portland.
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Posted inMaine, Nation & World, Politics
Maine lawmakers renew push for faster work permits for asylum seekers
Efforts dating to 2015 have failed to gain traction in Congress, stalling in the polarized debates over immigration reform and border security.
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Posted inAmerican Journal
Westbrook coalition grapples with short-term solutions for homelessness
Affordable housing projects are planned for down the road, but meeting immediate and near-future needs is challenging.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Clarence Page: Has Biden bungled the border crisis? He’s not alone
President Biden has been slow to move on the border issues that have led to asylum seekers being bused north by Republican governors. But the mess at the border crosses party lines, even if the solutions don’t.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
‘Room at the inn’: Falmouth congregation takes in asylum-seeking families
Greater Portland Family Promise has been working with area congregations to shelter asylum-seeking families for two weeks at a time.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Coastal Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster
New year, new upgrades in store for Cultivating Community farm
A solar power project will begin soon at Falmouth Land Trust’s Hurricane Valley Farm, where more than 50 families of New Mainers grow food, and a fundraising campaign is underway to renovate a dilapidated barn.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Scarborough hotel could shelter unhoused into February
The Comfort Inn now has 23 rooms occupied by shelter residents out of the previous 69.
Posted inAmerican Journal, The Forecaster
New year could bring evictions for many renters in Westbrook
More than 200 Westbrook households and hundreds of asylum seekers will be impacted when federal rent assistance ends.
Posted inNation & World, News
Tens of thousands at U.S.-Mexico border wait for limits to end
Migrants along the U.S. border with Mexico sought shelter from the cold early as restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum in the U.S. remained in place beyond their anticipated end.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
South Portland considers new zoning for homeless shelters to ward off tax increase
The city manager warns of a tax increase of 6% to more than 20% if local hotels keep operating as shelters.