Alaska’s largest health insurer is donating $1 million to housing and services for homeless youths
Seattle-based Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska on Thursday kicked off a larger campaign aimed at behavioral health and homelessness.
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Business owner says he spread chemicals in one of Anchorage’s gathering places for homeless people. Now police are investigating.
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.
Anchorage’s hardest-to-house homeless cost $50,000 a year on the street. Could that money be better spent?
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.
Anchorage’s large private landlords team up to provide apartments for the homeless
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.
A homeless camp in our back yard? Please, a Seattle university says
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.
Neighborhood chaos drives a new approach at an Anchorage social services hub
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.
With shelters maxed out, nonprofit uses SB 91 money to house homeless people with criminal records
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.
Downtown Anchorage homeless shelters could be fined for excessive police calls under proposed law
Assemblyman Dick Traini's measure appears to target Bean's Cafe, a downtown soup kitchen, and Brother Francis Shelter, an emergency overnight homeless shelter.
Bean’s Cafe forced to close nighttime shelter
Without Bean's, Anchorage must find space for more than 100 shelter beds.
How some of Anchorage’s most vulnerable homeless people are finally finding homes
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.
Anchorage’s Brother Francis Shelter is getting bunk beds to fight bedbugs
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.
How Anchorage sacrifices a neighborhood to substance abuse and homelessness
A proposal to house homeless elders on B Street perpetuates a system of redlining a minority area with social service programs.
Juneau cops and homeless strike common ground at the bowling alley
Homeless people and police officers squared off in a friendly game and helped raise money for a homeless shelter.
A solar-powered homeless camp in Anchorage, and an arrest
Of all the illegal camps Anchorage police have visited, there hasn’t been anything quite like this one along the Chester Creek Trail.
Anchorage's emergency cold-weather shelters may soon be open year-round
Anchorage officials hope opening shelters during warm weather will curb illegal camping, reduce wildfire danger and direct the homeless toward social workers.
Play about homelessness drawn from more than 100 interviews with Alaskans
Merry Ellefson set out to talk to as many people as she could about homelessness, taking her from the halls of the government to the shadows of overpasses.
Volunteers count the homeless and offer help in Anchorage
As volunteers spread across Anchorage for an annual homeless count, a service fair downtown offered a wide range of resources to vulnerable Alaskans.
Social worker to team up with Anchorage police officers entering homeless camps
City homeless coordinator Nancy Burke said the goal is to shorten the window of time between a cop ordering a camp closed and a social worker responding.
'It can happen to anyone': Director of Bean's Cafe confronts son's suspected overdose death
Her job involves regularly comforting people in pain. But Lisa Sauder, the director of Bean's Cafe, says her son's death has made her realize how hard it is to fight addiction.
Wanting to quickly reduce homelessness, city officials rushed into contract
The contract with the nonprofit Alaska WorkSource raises questions about how well the city vetted the organization.