{"id":34241,"date":"2019-07-09T03:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34241"},"modified":"2019-07-09T03:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:22:05","slug":"maine-city-offers-homeless-people-tents-as-it-faces-affordable-housing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34241","title":{"rendered":"Maine city offers homeless people tents as it faces affordable housing shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Bangor say principles mean they can&rsquo;t threw people into temporary dwelling like hotel rooms in nice weather<\/p>\n<p>Facing a shortage of affordable dwelling or shelter accommodation alternatives, Maine&rsquo;s homeless people, or those at imminent peril of becoming homeless, are being offered tents and camping gear, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The general relief executive for the commonwealth, Jodie Stout, told the neighbourhood Bangor Daily News newspaper that during good weather the city can&rsquo;t threw people in temporary housing in Waldo county, so it&rsquo;s offering outdoor camping gear instead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/05\/maine-homeless-people-tents-camping-gear-belfast-waldo-county\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/05\/maine-homeless-people-tents-camping-gear-belfast-waldo-county\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Bangor say principles mean they can&rsquo;t threw people into temporary dwelling like hotel rooms in nice weather Facing a shortage of affordable dwelling or shelter accommodation alternatives, Maine&rsquo;s homeless people, or those at imminent peril of becoming homeless, are being offered tents and camping gear, according to officials. The general relief executive for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1080,3558,17540,1338,15608,15616],"class_list":["post-34241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-poverty","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-maine","tag-society","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35001562642526.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}