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WTF! UNACCEPTABLE! If staffing is an issue, then have someone live at the $*&# shelter! Especially if there's weather on the way!
Ask 8 Investigates: Why isn't the #PortlandME warming shelter open tonight?
Despite #blizzard conditions, Portland's emergency #WarmingShelter won't be open overnight Monday
by Norah Hogan, February 23, 2026
" 'While we are not able to activate the warming shelter tonight, we understand the interest in opening the shelter on more #ExtremeWeather nights that fall outside the existing thresholds, and will explore the ability to do this in the future,' said city spokesperson Jessica Grondin. 'We will continue to look for ways to strengthen the model moving forward.' "
BULLSHIT! WHY WASN'T THIS ADDRESSED LAST MONTH!!!
@newsbot#Unhoused #Homeless
#Houseless #BlizzardOf26 #OvernightShelters #WarmingShelters #WarmingSheltersInMaine -
WTF! UNACCEPTABLE! If staffing is an issue, then have someone live at the $*&# shelter! Especially if there's weather on the way!
Ask 8 Investigates: Why isn't the #PortlandME warming shelter open tonight?
Despite #blizzard conditions, Portland's emergency #WarmingShelter won't be open overnight Monday
by Norah Hogan, February 23, 2026
" 'While we are not able to activate the warming shelter tonight, we understand the interest in opening the shelter on more #ExtremeWeather nights that fall outside the existing thresholds, and will explore the ability to do this in the future,' said city spokesperson Jessica Grondin. 'We will continue to look for ways to strengthen the model moving forward.' "
BULLSHIT! WHY WASN'T THIS ADDRESSED LAST MONTH!!!
@newsbot#Unhoused #Homeless
#Houseless #BlizzardOf26 #OvernightShelters #WarmingShelters #WarmingSheltersInMaine -
WTF! UNACCEPTABLE! If staffing is an issue, then have someone live at the $*&# shelter! Especially if there's weather on the way!
Ask 8 Investigates: Why isn't the #PortlandME warming shelter open tonight?
Despite #blizzard conditions, Portland's emergency #WarmingShelter won't be open overnight Monday
by Norah Hogan, February 23, 2026
" 'While we are not able to activate the warming shelter tonight, we understand the interest in opening the shelter on more #ExtremeWeather nights that fall outside the existing thresholds, and will explore the ability to do this in the future,' said city spokesperson Jessica Grondin. 'We will continue to look for ways to strengthen the model moving forward.' "
BULLSHIT! WHY WASN'T THIS ADDRESSED LAST MONTH!!!
@newsbot#Unhoused #Homeless
#Houseless #BlizzardOf26 #OvernightShelters #WarmingShelters #WarmingSheltersInMaine -
WTF! UNACCEPTABLE! If staffing is an issue, then have someone live at the $*&# shelter! Especially if there's weather on the way!
Ask 8 Investigates: Why isn't the #PortlandME warming shelter open tonight?
Despite #blizzard conditions, Portland's emergency #WarmingShelter won't be open overnight Monday
by Norah Hogan, February 23, 2026
" 'While we are not able to activate the warming shelter tonight, we understand the interest in opening the shelter on more #ExtremeWeather nights that fall outside the existing thresholds, and will explore the ability to do this in the future,' said city spokesperson Jessica Grondin. 'We will continue to look for ways to strengthen the model moving forward.' "
BULLSHIT! WHY WASN'T THIS ADDRESSED LAST MONTH!!!
@newsbot#Unhoused #Homeless
#Houseless #BlizzardOf26 #OvernightShelters #WarmingShelters #WarmingSheltersInMaine -
WTF! UNACCEPTABLE! If staffing is an issue, then have someone live at the $*&# shelter! Especially if there's weather on the way!
Ask 8 Investigates: Why isn't the #PortlandME warming shelter open tonight?
Despite #blizzard conditions, Portland's emergency #WarmingShelter won't be open overnight Monday
by Norah Hogan, February 23, 2026
" 'While we are not able to activate the warming shelter tonight, we understand the interest in opening the shelter on more #ExtremeWeather nights that fall outside the existing thresholds, and will explore the ability to do this in the future,' said city spokesperson Jessica Grondin. 'We will continue to look for ways to strengthen the model moving forward.' "
BULLSHIT! WHY WASN'T THIS ADDRESSED LAST MONTH!!!
@newsbot#Unhoused #Homeless
#Houseless #BlizzardOf26 #OvernightShelters #WarmingShelters #WarmingSheltersInMaine -
When #Maine #WarmingCenters can’t keep up with demand: ‘We are tasked with life and death decisions’
Advocates say #overnight facilities are essential in Maine, but services are limited and it is increasingly difficult to meet the need in communities, including those in #YorkCounty.
by Gillian Graham, January 11, 2026
BIDDEFORD — "Vassie Fowler feels a heavy burden when the doors of the warming center open.
"On the top floor of a former church, more than 50 homeless people unfold antigravity chairs and blankets to settle in and try to sleep each night. On evenings when temperatures dip into the single digits, the center will squeeze in up to 60.
But Seeds of Hope can’t make room for everyone." 'We know if we say no, there’s no other option for people,' said Fowler, executive director of the nonprofit on South Street. 'We are tasked with what feels like life and death decisions.'
"Advocates for the homeless population say warming centers are essential in Maine, where it can be dangerous and deadly to go unsheltered during winter months. But in a state with limited services, they say it is increasingly difficult to meet the need in many communities, including those in #YorkCounty, where there are no spots at overnight facilities for most of the hundreds of people who are homeless.
In September, Gov. Janet Mills and MaineHousing announced $2.3 million in grants to support 12 emergency warming centers across the state this winter in Bangor, Portland, Ellsworth, Presque Isle, Waterville, Lewiston, Biddeford, Sanford, Augusta and Brunswick."Some, like Seeds of Hope, are open every night.
"Others are more restricted: Portland only opens its shelter when the temperature is below 15 degrees or more than 10 inches of snow are expected; and in Sanford, the only center has 16 beds and is limited to families with children.
"People who are unsheltered in Sanford feel helpless and discouraged, said Rebecca Jackson, co-founder of It Takes a Village 207, a nonprofit that provides support and resources to people in the city.
" 'When temperatures reach dangerously low levels, access to warmth is not a luxury — it is a matter of survival,' Jackson said. 'Without accessible, low-barrier places to warm up, people are left with impossible choices that put their health and lives at risk.'
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"On Wednesday afternoon, 28-year-old Brooke Paul huddled near a doorway at a shopping plaza in downtown Sanford. She said she has been homeless for six years and sleeps in a tent in the woods near a walking trail.
"During the day, she tries to warm up by going into local businesses until she is asked to leave. At night, she layers her clothes and uses as many blankets as she can.
" 'The other night was freezing. It sucks,' she said. She wishes there was a nearby warming center.
" 'Why wouldn’t there be?' she said."
Archived version:
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