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Portland Weighs Oxford Street Site for Winter Warming Shelter
Seeds of Hope, a Biddeford nonprofit, has offered to run the roughly $600,000 operation from November through April.
Maine Business Wire has published 3 stories about Preble Street, the first on October 5, 2026 and the most recent on October 13, 2026.
October 13, 2026
The city's health and human services department was offered the Oxford Street space by Preble Street, according to the report.
October 7, 2026
An annual City of Portland inspection of Elena's Way, the 40-bed low-barrier shelter Preble Street runs at 5 Portland St., found the nonprofit was not carrying out hourly nighttime walks around the outside of the building that its approved safety plan requires, according to the Portland Press Herald, which obtained the report.
October 5, 2026
The appointees include Alton Buzzell of Hollywood Casino, Brittney Dunham of Preble Street, homelessness outreach worker Jason Goodrich, peer support specialist Peter Patrick Kealy, Northern Light Acadia Hospital psychiatrist Anthony Ng, BangorHousing property management director Melissa Rhodes, Bangor Public Library director Ben Treat, community organizer Teal Vasques and Penobscot Community Health Care clinical director Amy West.

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Seeds of Hope, a Biddeford nonprofit, has offered to run the roughly $600,000 operation from November through April.