maine's homeless rates.!

homeless rates.

new beginnings homeless shelter.! this is a place that has truely helped alot of teens get back on track when they had bad homes and had no other place to go. most of the teens that come here are put here because of drug addiction and defiance so this is a good place for teens to go and this program is a month long or until you find a home.

HOMELESS	PORTLAND (a)	MAINE (b)	US (c)
2007	741	7083	671888

Florence House gives 65 women nothing less than a second chance at life. Destitute and on the streets of Portland, sleeping in bus stations, cardboard boxes, or the park, these ladies had found their way to Preble Street Resource Center. There they found sympathy and food. They were given mattresses on the floor, six inches apart, to sleep on along with men.


....* Homelessness has increased in the city by 100 percent since 1993, with women representing the fastest growing group. To address that growing trend, Preble Street opened Logan Place, a 30-unit apartment building, in 2005, with the help of Avesta Housing. Since then, the City of Portland has reported the percentage of chronically homeless people down 18 percent. Like Logan Place, Avesta owns Florence House and manages the property, while Preble Street provides 24-hour staffing and services for the women who live there...*
24,000 Babies under age 5 Die each day from being homeless.
the average homeless person walks 6 miles a day.!

the bangor area homeless shelter 263 Main Street  Bangor, ME 04401 Phone Number: 207-947-0092  Description: Homeless Day and Night Shelter.  “No vision haunts America’s conscience more than the sight of the street people. . . . The irrationality and anguish that grip so many of these individuals leap out during any encounter, whether in Washington or Albuquerque.” ―Pete V. Domenici, U.S. Senator 1972-2009 SUMMARY: People with untreated psychiatric illnesses constitute one-third, or between 150,000 and 200,000 people, of the estimated 744,000 homeless population. The quality of life for these individuals is abysmal. Many are victimized regularly. One study found that 28 percent of homeless people with previous psychiatric hospitalizations obtained some food from garbage cans and 8 percent used garbage cans as a primary food source. The Oxford Street Shelter opened 12 years ago with a capacity of 50 people.  Today, the capacity has grown to 154 people, and that's still not enough.  People are being turned away because there is no more room.  Some of the people that are being turned away try to find refuge, with the help of shelter workers, in another shelter (i.e., a privately run shelter), try to find someone who can put them up for a night, or even worse, sleep outside. (Portland Press Herald, 10/04/01)