Anchored Home Plan - Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness | Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness

Homelessness is a pervasive problem across the country. In Anchorage, it has become more visible and more concerning to the community. Yet there is ample reason for hope. We are pushing ahead on promising solutions with a fresh sense of urgency. Anchored Home, Anchorage’s Strategic Plan to Solve Homelessness: 2018-2021 is a three-year tactical road map which draws on new tools and strategies while building on the community’s existing work and planning. The goal is to ensure homelessness in Anchorage is a rare, brief and one-time event.

Anchored Home, an update of the 2015 Anchorage Community Plan to End Homelessness, formally launched on October 4, 2018, following a lengthy period of public inputs. Discussion around the plan began formally in January of 2018. A Public Review Draft was released on August 22,2018 and followed by a series of conversations with various community councils, community support organizations, social service providers, business and industry leaders, and the public at large. Over 700 members of the community joined the dialogue and provided comments and inputs via email, through group discussion or one on one conversation. The final plan, released on October 4, 2018, represents much of this community input and the concrete actions to be taken moving forward.

Key pillars of Anchored Home include investing in Prevention & Diversion, strengthening the Anchorage Housing & Support System, ensuring Public Health & Safety, and bolstering Advocacy & Funding. The public review process of the draft and on-going community dialogue, as well as the on-the-ground operational implementation of Anchored Home, is jointly led by Nancy Burke, Housing and Homelessness Coordinator from the Municipality of Anchorage (leading Public Health & Safety efforts); Jasmine Khan, Executive Director of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (leading Housing & Support System efforts); Michele Brown of United Way (leading Prevention & Diversion efforts) and Dr. Richard Mandsager, a three-year Senior Fellow Executive-on-Loan by the Rasmuson Foundation (leading Advocacy & Funding efforts).

A core element of Anchored Home is transparent and frequent engagement with the Anchorage community. Anchored Home is a community plan that requires community voices. This page will capture implementation progress and share data dashboards as they are developed. You can also directly follow municipality efforts around Public Health and Safety.

Anchored Home: 2018 to 2021

Anchored Home 2020 Priorities

Anchored Home Monthly Scorecards:

November 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

October 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

September 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

August 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

July 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

June 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

May 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

April 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

March 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

February 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

January 2020 Anchored Home Scorecard

In 2020 the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness governance structure will add a layer to include the Homeless Response System Advisory Council body. Anchored Home reporting and updates will shift to the Homeless Response System Advisory Council body. The Anchored Home Scorecards will be published in its current form for the next few months. Following this, the Homeless Response System Advisory Council will present a new reporting format to meet their requirement for reporting to the community on the progress of the plan.

December 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard

November 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard

October 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard

September 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard

August 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard

July 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard

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May 2019 Anchored Home Scorecard