The Assembly's action resolves the last major piece of the city’s winter shelter plan.
The Municipality of Anchorage’s Solid Waste Services former administration building is located on 56th Avenue, pictured here on Sept. 20, 2023.
Alexis Johnson, the city’s homelessness coordinator, said the shelter is expected to open by Nov. 1. “This is going to be the first time in years that we haven’t had a mass shelter opened up in the winter,” said Felix Rivera, chair of the Assembly’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, in a congratulatory, but tempered tone.
Rivera said it will be a markedly better shelter system than in past winters because of operational and oversight changes intended to better guide shelter users to stability.
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