Despite the slow start at the former Solid Waste Services site on Tuesday, the group contracted to run city emergency winter shelters expects the beds to be filled by the end of the week.
Justin Neeley was one of the first people to get a cot at the emergency cold weather shelter that opened in the former Solid Waste Services administration building on Tuesday.
Inside a large bay area of Solid Waste Services’ former administrative building, social service staff unfolded green cots, setting them out in rows across the cement floor. Stacks of large, yellow-lidded totes sat near the entrance, ready for the shelter’s homeless clients to store their belongings. Justin Neeley sat on his cot, unpacking a few things and warming up after a night sleeping outside. Neeley had been camping at various places since the city closed its Sullivan Area shelter in spring — he’s stayed at encampments near Cuddy Park and Third and Ingra, and slept on downtown streets, he said.
Lately, one of the most difficult parts of experiencing homelessness in Anchorage has been finding a shelter bed, said Neeley, who has been homeless for about two years.His sister made a call, helping him get onto the city’s about 990-person waitlist for a winter shelter bed.As Anchorage officials grapple with a winter shelter bed gap, Bronson resurrects dispute over mass shelter proposalNeeley looked around at the bay area, slowly filling with more cots, and added, “This is a lot. This is good.
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