The administration has proposed a large new facility on East Tudor Road to shelter and offer one-stop services and support to hundreds of clients. With pressure in Anchorage to decommission a mass shelter at Sullivan Arena by fall, the new administration of Mayor Dave Bronson wants to build a city-owned shelter for the first time. Now, some cities are channeling a surge in pandemic federal aid to bolster their ability to shelter the homeless. In recent years, West Coast cities large and small have seen steep increases in the numbers of people living outside.
Two hundred miles east in Reno, a fast-growing, high-desert city Anchorage’s size, a massive tented shelter recently opened to house more than 500 of the city’s homeless citizens.Īs Anchorage continues searching for solutions to its growing and seemingly intractable homelessness problems, it is far from alone. SAN FRANCISCO - In a neighborhood of $2 million condos with views of San Francisco Bay, a pair of white aluminum-frame tents offer a refuge for the unhoused. The Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center, housed in fabric and aluminum enclosures made by Sprung Structures, opened in December 2019 despite objections from neighbors in the affluent section of the city.
