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Commentary: To properly help homeless people, Portland must be focused on cooperation

To suggest that the private sector is somehow enabling the community's antisocial tendencies – while the city is doing its level best – is inaccurate.

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Unheralded Maine organization celebrates 195 years of quietly helping others

The Female Samaritans Association has been helping nonprofits in Greater Portland since 1828.

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State announces plan to sweep Portland s Marginal Way homeless encampment

Dozens of tents at the site, which occupies about half of the state's Marginal Way park-and-ride lot, will be cleared on Nov. 1.

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Maine Voices: Focus on the causes of encampments, not the encampments themselves

There are a lot of reasons someone might refuse a bed at the new Homeless Services Center.

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Homeless people ponder next destination as Portland housing crisis intensifies

The fair market rent for a one- or two-bedroom apartment in the Portland metropolitan area for 2023 is 35 percent more than 2019.

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