The Anchorage Assembly declined tonight to take up Mayor Dave Bronson’s proposal to increase capacity at the Sullivan Arena homeless shelter.
ByThe Sullivan Arena in Anchorage serves as the city’s low-barrier emergency winter shelter.
The request comes as cold weather shelter capacity is maxed out across the city. All 200 beds at the Sullivan Arena are full. Bronson’s resolution would expand capacity at the shelter by 160 — to 360 beds. Hays said, in addition to the 200 people staying at the Sullivan shelter, there are roughly 160 people spilling over into a warming space inside the arena. The area is open 24 hours, but there are no cots there.
“Tonight, the Assembly chose to keep nearly 160 people sleeping on the cold, concrete floor of the Sullivan Arena,” he said. “This decision is immoral and wrong.
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