Anchorage city leaders have quarreled over policy regarding homelessness since Mayor Dave Bronson took office in July 2021, particularly over what type of shelter plans will work the best here.
. That’s why they proposed different solutions this year. They considered purchasing small pallet shelters that one or two people could occupy. They also suggested setting up sanctioned camps and dispersing them throughout the city, with each site providing resources to the homeless. But it didn’t take long before those ideas were shattered.Spezialy owns a music and dance school in South Anchorage across the street from one of those proposed camps.
“That is probably a flaw in our system, quite frankly,” Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness Executive Director Meg Zaletel said. “But that means full alignment, full alignment that housing is the solution to homelessness, that ‘housing first’ is the response and that we agree that coordinated leveraged funding from all sources goes towards that goal.”
“If you come in here and you’re not ready to have that conversation of sobriety, then what we’re going to do is we’re going to try to keep you alive, while you’re getting intoxicated or high,” Bell said. “You want to be able to have like a community buy-in and there hasn’t been a chance for that,” the concerned resident added.
Like in Houston, some people in Anchorage have begun moving off the streets into long-term apartment housing.
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