They spent over $120,000 dismantling #CampHope in #BangorME . Ideally, give folks real homes, but until that happens, give them a stable place to camp out! (Plus some folks prefer to live in an encampment rather than houses -- even here in #Maine! We have some hearty souls here in this state!

Bangor considers starting a sanctioned homeless encampment

by WVIIWed, December 3, 2025

BANGOR, Maine (WVII) -- "City leaders in Bangor are considering a new approach to Maine’s homelessness crisis: a city-established and regulated encampment.

"For years, the city has been clearing encampments, including Tent City, also known as Camp Hope, which was Bangor’s largest homeless encampment and was taken down in February.

"However, a new encampment has emerged along the railroad tracks behind the plaza at Washington and Exchange Street.

" 'We were living, okay. Here, there, everywhere. But every time we set up a place, the cops move us. And tell us you can’t be here, got to keep going, to keep going,' said David Ackley, who's been living at the encampment. 'Then I found out that there’s no railroad police down here, and they said that long as you’re on that side of the road tracks, you’re fine until so forth.'

"City officials say this new encampment is creating safety concerns. So, they are considering a new regulated encampment as a safer, more sustainable alternative.

" 'We can’t keep doing insanity, repeating the same thing over and over and over again,' Bangor City Councilor Joseph Leonard said. 'A sanctioned encampment site that allows the city to regulate, establish laws, get citizens there to actually represent themselves into actually produce rules and order to maintain the community that’s there — that makes it much easier for social services, for EMS, for police to be able to get in there.' "

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https://wgme.com/news/local/bangor-considers-starting-a-sanctioned-homeless-encampment-homelessness-maine-housing-substance-use-mental-health-crime-safety-concerns

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#MainePol #Unhoused #BangorMaine #Encampments #Homeless #Houseless #SanctionedEncampments

This bottom-up SOP overhaul has to happen at lightning speed (bills cycle monthly and paydays often don't happen until 3 weeks after hire). So, while rewriting SOPs, based on faulty information, you also have to be able to give 20-40 hrs/week to #homeless #unhoused #loveland #camphope #help

http://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/11/15/11954/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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So I need someone to explain part of the #camphope situation in #spokane to me.

When you look at the location, it is on an already vacant lot, east of downtown, just north of I-90.

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