Twenty four people believed to be homeless have died outdoors in Anchorage so far this year, according to new data from the city compiled by the Anchorage Daily News.
has been tracking outdoor deaths in Anchorage with data available to the public, though some other cities do.
“Anytime someone dies, it points to a failure somewhere in the system,” said Rob Marx, director of supportive housing for RurAL CAP. “Any death is one death too many,” city spokesman Corey Allen Young said in an emailed statement. “And while unsheltered homelessness is one of the contributing factors to some outdoor deaths, we have an underlying epidemic which is untreated substance misuse problems and a huge fentanyl surge in the city.”
Downtown Anchorage is visible from a trail along Chester Creek on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022 just to the south of the Sullivan Arena. again turned to the Sullivan Arena “I’m seeing camps where I’ve never seen camps before, in much more public open areas, camps on sidewalks in different areas of town,” he said. “I think it’s because there’s just not adequate housing and shelter room.”Deaths seem to come seasonally, he said: While many deaths this year happened in warmer months -- 13 from May to the end of September -- fall and winter is when life on the street gets much harder in the cold.
“There’s been this coming together, where we saw that the turmoil wasn’t working,” she said. “I feel now that there’s this big community push from all providers, the municipality, the public of ‘how do we solve this community wide problem that shouldn’t be political?’”
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