In the past year, Preble Street’s Veteran Housing Services (VHS) program has housed over 270 Veterans. This past September, VHS housed more Veterans than ever before in one month, connecting 28 Veterans to housing. These numbers represent hours, days, and weeks of hard work from the incredibly dedicated VHS team, who show up with compassion and love, and real people who have been helped during one of the toughest times in their lives.
Today, VHS has more than 250 landlord partners and have served close to 600 Veterans since October 2023. They recently formed a new partnership with the Rental Housing Alliance of Southern Maine to forge more partnerships with landlords, who have available units for Veterans.
About Veteran's Housing Services...
VHS assists Veterans and their families in finding and maintaining stable housing and works to end homelessness among Veterans in Maine. Our team covers all 16 counties in the state and has offices in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor.
Knowing that success depends on public and private partnerships and compassionate communities, the VHS program is a collaborative effort of Preble Street with Pine Tree Legal Assistance, funded by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families.
Preble Street Veterans Housing Services is part of a coalition of partners working to end Veteran homelessness in Maine. This coalition is called No Homeless Veterans and is comprised of local non-profits, community partners, and government agencies, who are united by the goal of ensuring episodes of homelessness among Veterans are brief and non-recurring.
Learn more at nohomelessveterans.org. If you’re a landlord interested in working with Preble Street, visit LandlordsHelp.org.
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Landlords can help end homelessness in Maine
With emergency shelters closing or at full capacity throughout the state, we must do all we can as a community to ensure individuals and families experiencing homelessness return to housing quickly and do not become homeless again. Through casework and financial assistance, Preble Street’s Rapid Re-Housing, Teen Housing, and Veterans Housing programs are working to
With a little help from our friends
The work we do to empower people experiencing homelessness, hunger, and poverty is never done alone. We are continuously making connections with other social service providers and nonprofits to better serve clients and the needs of the community. From our decades-long collaboration with Avesta Housing for our housing programs to our new partnership with Maine
Preble Street in Bangor
Since its start as a small social work agency in Portland, Maine, Preble Street has been guided by its commitment to mission and empowering vulnerable Mainers. Earlier this year, this commitment led Preble Street to assume operations of Hope House, a 56-bed emergency low-barrier shelter in Bangor, after Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) announced the shelter
