Asylum seekers
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2023
At Portland’s Family Shelter, people sleep sitting up – but state help is on the way
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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PublishedFebruary 3, 2023
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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PublishedJanuary 25, 2023
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.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2023
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.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2022
‘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.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2022
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.
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PublishedDecember 22, 2022
Scarborough hotel could shelter unhoused into February
The Comfort Inn now has 23 rooms occupied by shelter residents out of the previous 69.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2022
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.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2022
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.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2022
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.
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