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Westbrook to consider new rules to allow small emergency shelters for the first time

If enacted by the City Council, the ordinance would permit small-scale shelters for youth and families, transitional housing, and accessory shelters in buildings owned by civic organizations.

As homelessness grows outside areas with shelters, communities forced to prepare

In Westbrook, officials are weighing a zoning change that would allow the creation of smaller shelters. There is no current proposal to build one, but the city wants to be ready.

Communities recognizing homelessness isn't just a Portland problem

Scarborough, South Portland and Westbrook are all taking action to address the homelessness crisis that has largely been left to Portland to handle.

100s of laughing gas cannisters dumped on Moss Road in Kearsley