As Tuesday’s general election approaches, a nonprofit group is making sure Mainers can exercise their right to vote, wherever they live.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
South Portland places strict conditions on hotels with shelter guests
Twice-daily wellness checks for shelter guests are among conditions imposed on four hotels in the city.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
South Portland scrutinizes hotels housing homeless individuals
The operating licenses of Comfort Inn, Days Inn, Howard Johnson and now Casco Bay Hotel are up for review because of increased calls for police and other emergency services.
Posted inNation & World
America’s homeless ranks are aging as more retire on streets
Academics project their numbers will nearly triple over the next decade, challenging policy makers to imagine new ideas for sheltering the last of the baby boomers as they get older, sicker and less able to pay spiraling rents.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Portland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Homeless in Cumberland County: No easy solution in sight for ‘complex problem’
Before the homeless crisis can be solved, the extent of the problem has to be defined, especially in areas like the Lakes Region that lack resources.
Posted inLocal & State
Three adults, two children displaced when fire destroys Skowhegan home
About 40 firefighters from several towns responded to a fire at 15 Cedar Ridge Drive, only a couple of hundred feet from Cedar Ridge Center, a nursing and rehabilitation facility.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Housing offered to 150 former residents of Boston tent city
Mayor Michelle Wu says no one was forcibly removed or arrested when the city took down a homeless encampment Wednesday.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Christmas a good time to remember that homelessness is solvable
We have the tools to give people safe, stable housing. We just have to use them.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Portland adds summer meeting to review shelter proposal, other projects
Critics worry that officials are fast-tracking a plan to build a 200-bed homeless services center in Riverton to outmaneuver a citizen initiative designed to block it, but city officials say the project is proceeding on its normal course.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Council moves forward with homeless services center plans
Portland city councilors agree to have a developer continue its work in spite of calls for it to wait until November when a measure to mandate smaller shelters could be on the ballot.