Anchorage Daily News | Anchorage Assembly And Bronson Administration Issue List Of Possible Homeless Sites

Excerpt from Anchorage Daily News by Emily Goodykoontz.
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“As members of the Anchorage Assembly and Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration negotiate the city’s homelessness plans, they have identified 30 potential locations for a mass shelter this winter.

The list of possibilities spans several Anchorage neighborhoods, though many are in Midtown. It includes old retail spaces such as the shuttered Sam’s Club at Tikahtnu Commons, an old school, the Dena’ina Center and Sullivan Arena, where the city’s mass care facility is currently located…

Bronson and his homelessness coordinator, Dr. John Morris, had proposed building a large, temporary shelter and navigation center in East Anchorage for 400 people that could shelter up to 1,000 in an emergency…

Marbut was at the meeting and spoke, saying that a 450-person navigation center is the “sweet spot” for size in terms of cost.

Marbut is visiting sites on the list to evaluate them, he said after the meeting.

David Renard, president of RPM Team, a San Francisco program management firm that works with Sprung structures and homeless housing, was also present. Renard said he has been working with the administration since June to help develop the program for the proposed Tudor and Elmore shelter…”