Anchorage won’t move ahead with purchase of Spenard hotel for shelter services
The city had planned to use the hotel as a shelter and resource center for people experiencing homelessness.
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.
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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.
Reopening the Ben Boeke Ice Arena as a mass shelter will be an option of "last resort," a city official said.
The outbreak has prompted virus testing for clients three times a week.
Last week, the department's Inspector General's office said the purchases were an inappropriate use of the money.
Ben Boeke Ice Arena may also reopen as a shelter as the municipality tries to find more permanent housing for the city's homeless population.
Hale, 26, is headed to Germany next month for her second season of professional basketball.