Residents voiced their opinions on what to do as city leaders work on identifying or building a permanent, low-barrier homeless shelter by November.
, has an updated and established timeline with an end goal of identifying or building a permanent, low-barrier homeless shelter by Nov. 1.
“There is no one solution to this problem,” Anchorage resident Jeff Lafferty said. “It’s many-faceted, it’s complex, and it’s not going to be solved overnight. I would hope that the majority of the people this involves — our homeless population, our transient population — they want help. They do. But ... the harsh reality is, you know as well as I do, there’s probably a good percentage that, they don’t want help.
Felix Rivera, Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee, provided data to give context to the current situation at Monday’s town hall. A point-in-time homeless count, shown in strategy documents, showed 335 unsheltered people sleeping outside in Anchorage in Jan. 2023 — more than double the number from Jan. 2022. Other counts have pointed toWhile residents who spoke Monday don’t all agree on what to do next, they all want something to be done.
“I’m actually taking in homeless people and driving around with them in my motorhome to sleep,” Anchorage resident Angela Butcher said. “Putting up my own tent for them to sleep, feeding them all my food and my water. I don’t know what else to do, trying to sober them up and feed them because they look like they’re dying.”“It’s not a situation where we don’t love — that we do love — everyone in an unconditional, positive regard,” McCarty said.
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