Still months from being considered by the Anchorage Assembly, the plan to change where homeless shelters can be located is already being debated in neighborhood councils.
One topic candidates disagree on is on the city’s plan to purchase hotels for homeless and treatment services.
The majority of shelter guests — somewhere between 70% and 80% — are now fully vaccinated.
The pre-pandemic paradigm for homeless shelters in Anchorage is likely gone for good. What comes after the Sullivan Arena model has yet to be decided.
Part of the deal includes buying the properties of Ron Alleva, long at odds with the city and shelter providers over homeless services on Third Avenue.
The city had planned to use the hotel as a shelter and resource center for people experiencing homelessness.
The site on Tudor Road is one of four buildings the city expressed interest in purchasing for homeless and treatment services.
The isolation and quarantine facilities should be kept separate and high-risk individuals should be moved out of shelters, CDC officials said.
Close to 400 people a night are staying at Sullivan Arena; some are sent to hotels; and others are sleeping outdoors.
Fire marshal says Stay N' Save City Center Motel was a “disaster waiting to happen”
The agency will use the $5 million grant to boost rapid rehousing and homeless prevention to move hundreds of families with kids into stable housing
Services include primary and mental health care, crisis intervention, treatment for substance use disorders and withdrawl symptoms
The woman, who wasn’t immediately identified, is the 13th person to die outdoors in Anchorage this year and the fourth to die in same area since June.
City health officials says 29 hotel rooms remain available for people needing to isolate or quarantine due to virus
The deaths, which police do not consider suspicious, occur as Anchorage grapples with homeless crisis amid pandemic
Forty-one additional COVID-19 cases have been confirmed among other homeless shelters in Anchorage, according to the Emergency Operations Center.
More than 50 people have died outdoors in Anchorage since 2017.
With more than 100 COVID-19 cases among homeless residents, more outreach is happening outside of shelter settings, according to officials.
Results as of Thursday morning bring the total case count to 89 at the Anchorage homeless shelter.
The city health department said it is now working with local service providers to test guests and staff at each of Anchorage’s shelters, soup kitchens and encampments.
