Last Updated: Friday, February 9, 2024
Maine communities have been hit hard by storms and flooding - with the storms on December 18th, 2023, and January 10th and 13th, 2024 being some of the most destructive. We know you have questions and will do our best to answer them, but some of these issues (like the availability of FEMA help) are still developing. When possible we will link to official government sources for more resources and information.
Hello and welcome to PTLA.org, the website of Pine Tree Legal Assistance! We are a statewide civil legal aid organization serving the state of Maine.
Historically, data around rental housing instability in Maine has been limited, particularly when it comes to evictions. To help illuminate the story of what is happening with evictions in Maine, Pine Tree Legal Assistance embarked on a research project in 2022 in partnership with the John T. Gorman Foundation and building off the 2020 work of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition.
Pine Tree Legal Assistance gathered and reviewed data from 5,414 eviction files for the period from March 2019 to March 2022. We reviewed files from 24 District Courts around the state.
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Pine Tree Legal Assistance acknowledges and celebrates each November as Native American Heritage Month. The work of our Indigenous Peoples Unit is important to our work promoting fairness and justice for all. We are committed to finding a better path forward to support Indigenous communities in their work for sovereignty and self-determination.
If you have a disability, and you have an animal that helps you with that disability, you may have the right to bring that animal into places where you wouldn’t be allowed to bring a pet.
There are different rules, depending on whether it is a service animal or an assistance animal, and what kind of place you want to bring your animal.
A service animal is a dog trained to do work for a person who has a disability.
