The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday called for the formation of two task forces to rapidly pursue short-term and longer-term homelessness solutions.
will explore the possibility of setting up sanctioned camps, including code changes needed for shelter villages of prefabricated tiny homes or other modular structures.
“I’ve been ringing the alarm, that there’s probably going to be a behavioral health crisis on our streets, and that we need to be getting ready for it,” said Assembly member Felix Rivera, chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee and the member who drafted the resolutions. The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness recently estimated about 300 people are already living unsheltered. Once shelters are closed, hundreds more will have nowhere to go, swelling the total to at least 700 to 800, the coalition estimated.
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