The Anchorage Assembly voted unanimously Tuesday night to raise capacity at the city’s largest homeless shelter, at Sullivan Arena, from 200 beds to 360.
“I was embarrassed,” James Thornton of the Fairview Community Council said at the meeting about a recent tour of the facility. “Folks sleeping on the floor like sardines.”Anchorage’s Sullivan Arena shelter is full. As temperatures plunge, homeless Alaskans seek refuge in a crowded warming area.The Assembly’s vote clears the shelter to accommodate 360 people a night, nearly doubling the 200-person cap that was previously in place.
“We would not, yet again, be back here in an unacceptable facility that is, frankly, a disgrace,” East Anchorage Assembly member Forrest Dunbar said of Bronson’s policy decisions. “The Assembly chose to keep nearly 160 people sleeping on the floor of the Sullivan Arena. This is wrong,” the mayor’ssaid. “They had the opportunity to provide a semblance of human dignity by giving folks a cot & warm place to sleep & they chose otherwise. Is this the Anchorage we want?”
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