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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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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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.
Posted inLetters
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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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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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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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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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.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
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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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.