Another Bangor warming center won’t open this winter

The Brick Church won’t open its warming center after not receiving funding from MaineHousing this year, according to the church’s pastor.

The church at 126 Union St. provided a warm place for between 60 and 70 homeless people every night last winter, said pastor Leon Licata.

Another institution, The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, decided in August to discontinue its warming center and instead add five shelter beds. Between that change and the loss of funding for the Brick Church, the Mansion Church will be the only overnight warming center in Bangor this winter.

Organizations in Penobscot County this year received about half the total funding for warming centers that it has seen in previous years.

Last year, MaineHousing awarded the Brick Church $40,540 to fund its warming center.