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Bangor leaders press for coordinated homelessness plan as shelter capacity strains
Summary
At a special workshop with state legislators, Bangor City Council prioritized a comprehensive plan to address homelessness, highlighting data gaps in HMIS and HUD counts, warming-center usage of about 80–85 people per night, and the need for state funding and coordinated action.
Bangor City Council and its legislative delegation on Tuesday focused on creating a coordinated, data-driven response to homelessness as shelter and warming-center capacity nears its limits.
City officials told the delegation the council’s top priority this year is developing a comprehensive plan to address homelessness that would align city services, nonprofit partners and state funding. City staff said the point-in-time HUD count and the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) are the key data sources but stressed both have limitations: point-in-time tallies exclude people couch-surfing and are seasonally…
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