Partners
Project HOME families thrive with the support of housing mentors and landlords working together.
Landlord Partners
Port Property Management
Port Property is a property management company with over 1200 apartments in the Greater Portland area with the mission of providing safe, clean, well maintained apartments to all tenants. As a locally-owned business, Port Property supports local businesses and strives for equity within the company and in the properties it manages. Learn more at www.portpropmgt.com.
Community Housing of Maine
Community Housing of Maine (CHOM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides advocacy, supportive housing, community inclusion, and stability for homeless and special needs populations across the state. CHOM develops, owns, and maintains high quality, affordable, service-enriching housing for people with low incomes and disabilities. Learn more at www.chomhousing.org.
Brit Vitalius
Brit Vitalius is a local landlord dedicated to providing quality housing for vulnerable people. Learn more at vitalius.com.
Wendy Harmon
Wendy Harmon is a local landlord that has years of experience housing folks most in need in the Portland community. Learn more at wendyharmon.yourkwagent.com.
Housing Readiness Partners
York County Community Action Corporation
For more than 50 years, York County communities have counted on YCCAC to provide opportunity and hope to people from all circumstances, particularly in times of transition or adversity.
We are driven by the belief that when our communities are strong, all of its members have opportunities to thrive— and, in turn, that when an individual achieves personal success and independence, our communities grow healthier, stronger, and more vibrant.
McAuley Residence
McAuley Residence is a program of Mercy Hospital that provides a two-year comprehensive transitional housing program for women with and without children who are in recovery from drug and alcohol dependency. The McAuley Residence staff collaborates with Mercy and community providers to offer a well-rounded approach providing women the skills they need to embrace recovery in all areas of their lives. McAuley Residence is guided by the Sisters of Mercy philosophy of compassionate care for all, with special concern for disadvantaged women and children. Learn more here.
The City of Portland Family Shelter
The City of Portland’s Health & Human Services Department, Social Services Division operates the Family Shelter, which is the largest shelter for families in the State of Maine. The Family Shelter offers both preventative services for families at risk of experiencing homelessness and support services to assist families in locating housing and achieving stability.
ProsperityME
ProsperityME offers financial services, including financial literacy courses, one-on-one financial counseling and coaching, Individual Development Account (IDA), counseling for higher education, small business support, and partnering with other organizations in the area of workforce development for refugees, immigrants, asylees, and low-income individuals in Greater Portland and Lewiston/Auburn, Maine. Learn more at www.prosperityme.org.
The Opportunity Alliance
The Opportunity Alliance (TOA) is a dynamic, results-focused Community Action Agency providing approximately 50 integrated community-based and clinical programs serving more than 20,000 people annually to address issues such as mental health, substance use, homelessness, lack of basic needs, and access to community supports. Through an extensive array of services, TOA provides opportunities for individuals to stabilize fragile situations and then works with them to achieve self-sufficiency. Learn more at www.opportunityalliance.org.
Hope Acts
Hope Acts provides housing mentorship, asylum and work permit application support, English classes, and other resources that support immigrants in transitioning to life in Greater Portland and in achieving their goals for a successful future. Learn more at
hopeacts.org.
Maine Inside Out
Maine Inside Out (MIO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. MIO is a community of artists and visionaries with lived experience of incarceration and structural racism and their allies. MIO builds, practices and shares models for community change to build a world where everyone matters and belongs. As a part of the MIO community, participants have the opportunity to engage in MIO’s three Models for Community Change: Art, Advocacy and Support and Transformative Justice.
The Portland Housing Authority Foster Youth to Independence Program
The Portland Housing Authority Foster Youth to Independence Program (FYI) is an initiative designed to assist young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 who have been part of the foster care system and are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of becoming homeless. FYI is administered by the Portland Housing Authority (PHA) in collaboration with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and youth services providers. FYI works with eligible youth to identify, secure, and maintain housing while also participating in a variety of services around education, job training, and financial goals.
Maine Recovery Advocacy Project
The Maine Recovery Advocacy Project (ME-RAP) is a grassroots network of people across our state working to redefine and reimagine justice, access, connection, and recovery in our state laws, county policies, municipal ordinances, schools, workplaces, and in our daily lives. ME-RAP is committed to supporting those in recovery in their housing.
Preble Street
Preble Street's mission is to provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty, and to advocate for solutions to these problems. From a nutritious meal to crisis intervention, from clean clothes to healthcare, from showers to a permanent home, Preble Street programs n ot only meet urgent needs but also create solutions to homelessness and hunger.
“QHC and Project HOME provide vital support to ensure lasting success for the individual/family by pairing them with a personal housing mentor who conducts regular check-ins. As a landlord, I appreciate that the housing mentor works with the resident(s) to keep their home safe and clean. Having the housing mentor act as a liaison has been so helpful for both the resident and the landlord!”
Danielle Purington, Property ManagerPort Property Management
Project HOME tenant
