Anchorage Scrambles to Get Growing Homeless Population Indoors Before Winter
Homelessness is up 60% in Alaska’s largest city, which is offering free one-way tickets to the Lower 48 states
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Homelessness is up 60% in Alaska’s largest city, which is offering free one-way tickets to the Lower 48 states
Homeless residents, nearby business owners and service providers say that gun violence, assaults, extortion, theft and drug dealing have proliferated, largely unfettered, in the Third Avenue encampment and surrounding streets.
After winding down Sullivan Arena without shelter alternatives, the city can’t tell people to leave campsites. For neighbors, that brings major problems.
Apartment giant Weidner teams with Rasmuson Foundation to buy properties adjacent to Brother Francis Shelter for new ‘resource hub’ Published February 19 Share on Facebook Print article Weidner Apartment Homes and the Rasmuson Foundation will purchase properties adjacent to Brother Francis Shelter in order to build a new “resource hub” to serve homeless people, and to end a long, bitter property dispute with a Ship Creek landowner. Weidner will buy parcels of land owned by Ron Alleva next to the Brother Francis Shelter on Third Avenue, as well as the building and property owned ...