Tag: homelessness
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PublishedNovember 21, 2018
Our View: Homeless youths need more of our attention and assistance
It’s not just a lack of housing that leads teenagers to live on the street, and the problem requires a different approach from adult homelessness.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2018
Maine Voices: Laser focus on housing, resources is reducing homelessness
A statewide council is also working to bring together members of a fragmented system to improve results.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2018
Portland council seeking unity on model for new homeless shelter
Councilor Kimberly Cook decides not to ask for a council vote on replacing the city’s adult facility with a single city-run shelter while a committee considers its recommendation.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2018
Letter to the editor: Fixing Maine’s youth justice system long overdue, but there’s new hope
The new governor and other elected leaders should develop and fund community-based alternatives to incarceration for the state’s young people.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2018
Portland City Councilor Batson: New York, other cities offer lessons for solving homelessness
They simply do not have the same effective outcomes working in a large, warehouse-style shelter model.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2018
Maine Voices: Affordable housing saves lives and saves the community money
We need resources for housing, health care and treatment for mental health and substance use disorder.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2018
Portland man has plan to convert cruise ship into homeless shelter
MemoryWorks director Kenneth Capron seeks a grant that would fund a feasibility study.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2018
Director of Portland shelter is leaving, saying the high-stress job has worn him down
Rob Parritt says the work has become all-consuming and he will give it up after overseeing the city’s increasingly overwhelmed Oxford Street Shelter for the better part of a decade.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2018
Our View: Homelessness is a statewide problem, not a local one
The failure of Maine’s government to address drug abuse and mental illness creates an unfair burden for Portland taxpayers.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2018
Preble Street’s plan to scale back hours at day shelter in Bayside worries its users and its neighbors
Facing rising costs and less public funding, the agency makes a decision that could exacerbate the needs of the homeless and undermine efforts to reduce disorderly behavior in the area.
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