Edwin Palmer, left, talks about what the Karluk Manor has meant to him and his wife Geraldine Palmer, right, from his room, on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The couple have separate rooms at the Housing First facility. For the past six months, Anchorage’s most vulnerable chronic homeless inebriates with reformability have had the opportunity to get off the streets and out of homeless camps by becoming residents at the Karluk Manor, a RurAL CAP Housing First facility with 46 single occupancy rooms that provide a safe place for them to live. BILL ROTH / ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS Buy Photo