PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Plans for a 24-hour homeless shelter in Maine’s largest city that can serve 40 people are facing opposition from its neighbors.
The Portland Press Herald reports the nonprofit Preble Street applied for a permit from the city to convert its resource center into a shelter with 40 beds.
The city’s planning board must approve the application.
A neighborhood organization opposes the proposal and says it wants the city to build a shelter elsewhere in the city.
Homeless people and advocates camped this summer outside City Hall for two weeks to demand improvements in services for the homeless.
