The Anchorage Health Department is looking to have a mass home shelter operational within the next two weeks. This comes as community residents express concern about large homeless camps impacting the safety in their neighborhoods.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Anchorage Health Department is looking to have a mass homeless shelter operational within the next two weeks.
The facility is located off of East 56th Avenue in between the Old Seward and Seward highways, which Johnson says is far away from residential neighborhoods. She showed the proximity of the facility from residential neighborhoods at a recent Assembly meeting. Additionally, the current solid waste facility is across the street from the soon-to-be homeless shelter.
Additionally, she said the health department wants the facility to be a place where people want to stay. The space will be equipped with bathrooms, kitchens, and a communal space. Bronson said he has some mixed feelings about the facility and feels the Assembly missed an opportunity when it voted to kill his mass homeless shelter project at Tudor and Elmore.
“Sullivan is a very large facility. There’s a lot of dark spaces, a lot of odds and end hallways, rooms. It required a lot more eyes on people and where they were going within the facility,” Johnson said. “This is a way smaller footprint. ... There’s no warming facility on site so there’s no additional foot traffic. It’s a very secure location versus the Sullivan Arena which had wide open spaces on all four sides.
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