Western Maine Community Action was awarded nearly $7 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to convert two properties to affordable housing and emergency shelter for housing-insecure people.
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‘Nobody would choose this’: A turnpike rest area and a van become home for one Maine family
Jeanie Cannell, her husband and his daughter have lived at the Kennebunk travel plaza on the Maine Turnpike for three months, unable to find affordable housing, even though two of them work full-time.
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Posted inLocal & State, Local Government, Morning Sentinel
Waterville council rejects rezoning for Highwood Street housing plan
City councilors on Tuesday voted 4-3 to rezone 8 Highwood St. so the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter could develop apartments for seniors and disabled people with families, and some emergency housing for homeless people, but the vote fell short of the needed supermajority.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Lewiston’s proposed shelter moratorium is unacceptable
Lewiston’s mayor calls opposition to efforts to help unhoused people ‘a waste of time.’
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Stable housing for every Mainer is the way life should be
Bills in the Legislature will attack Maine’s housing crisis from several angles: zoning reform, building more affordable housing and funding more vouchers.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine should address shelter shortage
What looks like a crisis for the city of Portland is really a statewide problem that needs legislative action.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
‘Teetering on the edge’: Lewiston, other Maine cities, towns, seek new solutions to homelessness
The debate over a 24-hour shelter has amplified a growing problem, but can new initiatives change the bleak outlook?
Posted inNation & World, News
Man suspected of stalking, killing homeless people arrested
Gerald Brevard, 30, who lives in the Washington area, has a criminal history that includes assault.
Posted inNation & World, News
Gunman sought in killings of homeless men in New York, D.C.
Authorities also turn their attention to trying to offer what protections they can to those who might become targets.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Compass: What a statewide housing crisis looks like up close
Too many Maine residents and officials think that homelessness and the individuals experiencing it can be pushed to the next town over.