PRESS RELEASES 2023 Avesta Housing & Preble Street announce new Site-based Housing First partnership in Portland 2022 Preble Street Rapid Re-Housing Program reaches housing milestone and keeps on going 2021 Preble Street announces matching grant challenge from the John T. Gorman Foundation for new Food Security Hub dedicated to ending hunger in Maine Preble Street … Read more
IN THE NEWS Homelessness/Poverty In Portland’s version of Mass. and Cass, efforts to sweep away homelessness are being challenged (Boston Globe, September 2023) Commentary: The solution to ending encampments is shelter (Portland Press Herald, June 2023) Portland approves plan for new shelter in Bayside (January 2021) Long nights ahead for homeless in Maine’s largest city … Read more
2015 Annual Celebration 2015 Joseph D. Kreisler Community Impact Award awardee Dennis Marble, executive director Bangor Area Homeless Shelter Preble Street Executive Director Mark Swann presents the Board Member of the Year award to Gary Chavoustie Portland Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz won the 2015 Force for Good Award for significant contributions to public awareness … Read more
EVENTS Annual Celebration Due to COVID-19, Preble Street has been unable to continue our tradition of our annual celebration. We hope that you enjoy remembering past events with us and join us when we gather again! 2019 Annual Celebration At the 44th Preble Street Annual Celebration we honored the past and present of the agency … Read more
Preble Street has never closed its doors and never will. Preble Street is home to hundreds of people each day, and we are here to see them through the COVID-19 crisis. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP! UPDATE 4/17 | A message from Executive Director Mark Swann: Preble Street needs your help UPDATE 4/16 | Preble Street … Read more
Preble Street is committed to the safety of clients, staff, and volunteers while providing essential emergency services to people in need. We are closely monitoring the situation and following protocols of local, state, and federal experts on the coronavirus (COVID-19). Our priority is to stay true to our mission, keep our essential programs open, and … Read more
Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDL9fdF4dI&t=39s How Site-based Housing First changes lives Hear directly from tenants at three Site-based Housing First programs in Maine how the program has changed their lives. Avesta Housing and Preble Street collaborated on the first three Site-based Housing First properties in the state of Maine — Logan Place, which opened in 2005; Florence House … Read more
Frequently Asked Questions Answers to some of the most common questions that we receive are listed below. Most Asked Are you a shelter? Preble Street operates many programs, including several shelters. These shelters include: Florence House Shelter, a low-barrier shelter for women experiencing homelessness Joe Kreisler Teen Shelter, a youth shelter for unaccompanied and runaway … Read more
HUSTON COMMONS Huston Commons provides efficiency apartments and essential 24-hour support services, including a medical care room to accommodate regular practitioner hours and telemedicine services for tenants, all of whom were chronically homeless and have disabilities. A Home for Good Huston Commons is the third Housing First program in Portland and was completed in 2017. … Read more
OVERVIEW Logan Place provides efficiency apartments and 24 hour on-site support for 30 adults who have experienced chronic homelessness. Logan Place, along with Florence House and Huston Commons, is a model for a real solution to the problem of homelessness in our communities. On March 24, 2005, the day we opened Logan Place, the number … Read more
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