Portland Police have confirmed another person living in a tent in a homeless camp in Portland has died.

Police said the person, whom they only identified as a 52-year-old man, was found dead in a tent in Harbor View Park near Commercial Street on Nov. 30 at 9:06 p.m. 

“The investigation is ongoing, and the death is not considered suspicious,” police said in a statement.

This is the second death in a week at a homeless camp in the city.  

Maine State Police announced another death on Nov. 26 at a tent near 140 Marginal Way.  

A similar and unrelated death was reported a day earlier in the town of Sanford in a wooded area off 1 Eagle Drive.

Homelessness continues to be a growing problem statewide, with the subject of how to handle homeless encampments on public property becoming a near-routine topic of discussion by local officials.  

The issue has been exacerbated, officials have said, by the influx of several thousand asylum seekers into the city.  

This week, the city opened a new 179-bed emergency shelter for asylum seekers at 166 Riverside St. in an attempt to alleviate the problem.

Right now, the city of Portland estimates there are 208 separate tents pitched by the homeless in the city overall.  

Of those, 143 are on city property, 29 are on private property, and the remaining 36 are on state property. Last month, the Portland City Council rejected a proposal to put a pause on sweeping homeless camps on public property this winter. 

State officials are also trying to move camped homeless people along. Paul Merrill, spokesperson for the state Department of Transportation, said Friday that the department approached “several unhoused individuals” who were living in tents on state property near exits 5, 6 and 7 on Interstate 295 in the city.

The individuals, he said, were told they had 24 hours to move.

“There are safety concerns with them being so close to traffic,” he said. “It’s our standard department practice to do this.”