Maine Medical Center and Preble Street have joined forces to ensure the most vulnerable underserved people in Portland have access to quality, barrier-free health care. The MMC-Preble Street Learning Collaborative seeks to help fill the void left by the closing of the City of Portland Healthcare for the Homeless Clinic in 2014, provide no-barrier access

Last fall, I had to take the car keys away from an elderly relative who lives alone. This intervention should have happened much earlier, but when the day came it was one of the more emotionally wrenching things I’ve ever done. “Don’t take my car away,” he pleaded. “Without my car I don’t have a

They trekked through snowy fields and wooded areas, along icy roads and railroad tracks, up slippery embankments and down slushy paths. Six teams of volunteers and social service workers fanned out across Portland on Wednesday night to conduct the city’s annual point-in-time count of homeless people as required by the U.S. Department of Housing and

It can’t be said enough that New York’s homelessness crisis is complicated. In a city where people are squeezed beyond their means by rising rents, just one of any number of additional stresses — a lost job, sickness, addiction, domestic violence — can propel a family into the shelter system or the street. The problem

Five New Hampshire housing initiatives have been awarded nearly $5.5 million in grants, loans and interest-rate subsidies through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s 2016 Affordable Housing Program. All told, the bank announced that 45 projects in New England will receive $56.4 million in assistance. The funds will be used to finance 1,100 units