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The low-barrier shelter was expected to close this fall unless its current operator, Penobscot Community Health Care, found a new partner to patch a nearly $1 million budget hole.
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Hope House was due to close this fall, unless a new partner could fill a nearly $1 million budget gap.
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The city's planning board voted Tuesday night on an application to permanently provide service to 258 people at the Homeless Services Center. City officials said the shelter has been serving an average of 229 people a night since January.
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This session brought many wins, allowing developers to chip away at Maine's housing production goals and advocates to help those facing homelessness and tenants struggling to pay rent.
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The system of five privately-run low-barrier shelters is facing an annual deficit of nearly $4 million.
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Portland officials said they have not yet set a date to clear the Harbor View encampment, but the Maine Department of Transportation said it will ask some people within a certain area under the Casco Bay Bridge to move on Dec. 11.
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Some saw the proposal as a good first step for the city to address a growing crisis, while others viewed it as the wrong approach at the wrong time.
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After years of planning and debate, a new homeless shelter was unveiled in the outskirts of Portland Wednesday. The 208-bed Homeless Services Center will provide meals, day space, outside space, and wraparound services such as medical, dental, and psychiatric care.
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As more than a dozen entities prepare to use state emergency funds to open and expand overnight warming shelters for the remaining weeks of winter, officials in Auburn say plans to get a shelter of their own up and running have fallen through.
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MaineHousing will funnel at least a portion of new emergency funds, worth up to $21 million, to communities across the state to expand existing overnight shelters and warming centers or open new ones this winter.