Maine State Housing Authority on March 23 announced a $916,000 grant to Amistad to create 12 permanent housing units in Wiscasset. They would be upstairs at St. Philip’s Church, all single-room units, with shared kitchens and bathrooms, Amistad.
Funds are being appropriated for a new shelter space in Lewiston and adding new shelter capacity in Portland. Several projects will help Maine's growing immigrant and asylum-seeking population.
Estimates put that as many as 20,000 people in SF will experience homelessness in 2022. Although members of the Latinx community make up 16% of the city's total residents, the demographic now makes up more than 30% of SF's unhoused population a huge increase since the COVID-19 pandemic began.