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Portland is bringing back home-share program for asylum seekers

Hosts in Portland will be eligible for payment but are being asked to commit to a longer time frame than in 2019, when a voluntary program was used to house people leaving the Portland Expo.

Portland is bringing back home share program for asylum seekers

In photos: See some of the best images of Maine s asylum seekers from Long Way Home

In 'Long Way Home,' Press Herald reporters and photographers told the story of the large influx of asylum seekers arriving in Maine in recent years, fleeing their homelands and embarking on dangerous journeys to make a new life in Maine.

Exodus to the Pine Tree State

Over continents and years, through danger and illness, thousands of African asylum seekers, mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, have made their way to Maine. They tell harrowing stories of peril in their home countries and on their way to the United States, and say they came to Maine hearing they would find safety and help here.

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