A soaring number of hospitalizations and 911 calls in the area around Brother Francis Shelter and Bean's Cafe got hospital executives in Anchorage talking.
The policy, modeled after those of cities in the Lower 48, reflects the challenges in moving people toward shelters or housing.
A council of Alaska business executives, city leaders, a church pastor and non-profits plans to tackle a three-year effort to curb homelessness initiative beginning this fall.
Seattle-based Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska on Thursday kicked off a larger campaign aimed at behavioral health and homelessness.
Ron Alleva owns a business next door to the area. He’s waged a yearslong campaign against a nearby shelter and soup kitchen, saying they coddle homeless people who desecrate the neighborhood.
That's about the same amount as a year of permanent housing and assistance, a new study shows. The data is setting the stage for a bigger project.
Weidner Apartment Homes and Cook Inlet Housing Authority have teamed up on a novel project to provide apartments, job training and case management to 40 homeless households in Anchorage.
Homeless encampments are bleakly familiar fixtures in cities. But in the Puget Sound area, an unusual arrangement has taken root: homeless camps with rights and rules.
Homeless encampments are bleakly familiar fixtures in cities. But in the Puget Sound area, an unusual arrangement has taken root: homeless camps with rights and rules.
Police, paramedics and social workers have been stationed at Bean's Cafe and Brother Francis Shelter this month in hopes of reducing emergency calls, drug dealing, sidewalk camping and violence.
Since the passage of Senate Bill 91 in 2016, the number of people crowding each day into the nonprofit-run Partners Reentry Center in downtown Anchorage has skyrocketed.
Assemblyman Dick Traini's measure appears to target Bean's Cafe, a downtown soup kitchen, and Brother Francis Shelter, an emergency overnight homeless shelter.
Assemblyman Dick Traini's measure appears to target Bean's Cafe, a downtown soup kitchen, and Brother Francis Shelter, an emergency overnight homeless shelter.
Without Bean's, Anchorage must find space for more than 100 shelter beds.
There are over 650 names on a new list that ranks the most vulnerable homeless adults in Anchorage. About 40 adults have been housed through the list this year.
The shelter near downtown Anchorage recently won a $50,000 grant from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority for what it’s calling the “Improved Sleeping Conditions” project.
A proposal to house homeless elders on B Street perpetuates a system of redlining a minority area with social service programs.
A proposal to house homeless elders on B Street perpetuates a system of redlining a minority area with social service programs.
Homeless people and police officers squared off in a friendly game and helped raise money for a homeless shelter.
Of all the illegal camps Anchorage police have visited, there hasn’t been anything quite like this one along the Chester Creek Trail.
