Our mission is…

To provide dynamic leadership to unite Anchorage in making homelessness rare, brief and one-time.

Our core values are

dignity, respect, equity and compassion.

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Project Homeless Connect provides key connections for unhoused neighbors
Project Homeless Connect provides key connections for unhoused neighbors

More than 450 people were served at Project Homeless Connet 2024. Many of them were living unsheltered as winter began to set in.

Our community seeks $5 million from HUD
Our community seeks $5 million from HUD

Our community is seeking $5 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for 14 new and renewal projects to serve those experiencing homelessness.

AWAIC provides a path to housing
AWAIC provides a path to housing

For more than 20 years, Anchorage’s main shelter serving domestic violence survivors also has not only provided safety in the moment, but has helped clients transition to stable housing.

Partnership ensures the most vulnerable people are sheltered
Partnership ensures the most vulnerable people are sheltered

In the first week after Anchorage’s early, record-breaking October snowfall, 200 beds of emergency shelter were filled.

How are we doing?
How are we doing?

How are we doing?

The number of people experiencing homelessness in Anchorage is going down, data in the Homelessness Management Information System shows.

Municipality of Anchorage has a plan to address homelessness
Municipality of Anchorage has a plan to address homelessness

Municipality of Anchorage has a plan to address homelessness

The LaFrance administration has unveiled its one-year plan to address homelessness through four broad tactics

Help Anchorage attract HUD grant funds
Help Anchorage attract HUD grant funds
Understanding Homelessness in Anchorage: A National and Local Perspective
Understanding Homelessness in Anchorage: A National and Local Perspective

In 2023, homelessness across the U.S. reached record levels, with more than 653,000 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January.

Donor spotlight!
Donor spotlight!

Patricia has gone from a tent in the woods to shelter to a cute apartment in Mountain View. She crochets hats to give away to people who are still unhoused, calling them “hats for my homies.” Anchorage resident Mary Navitsky read the story and was so inspired, she donated her own stash of beautiful yarns to Patricia’s cause.

Street outreach connects with those living outdoors
Street outreach connects with those living outdoors

How do we reach our unsheltered neighbors? Street outreach! It's how we know who is unsheltered and where to find them.

Another round of move-ins on the books!
Another round of move-ins on the books!

Fourteen people from an encampment just off the Coastal Trail near Elderberry Park now have a home.

Our local grant competition is on!
Our local grant competition is on!

Organizations that provide housing and supportive services for people experiencing homelessness in Anchorage are encouraged to apply for funding through the annual Continuum of Care program competition now underway.

First medicine: Supportive housing in Anchorage for elders now open
First medicine: Supportive housing in Anchorage for elders now open

Congratulations to Providence Alaska for its brand-new supportive housing project, Q’et’en Qenq’a – Providence House. It has the potential to be a game-changer in our community for people experiencing homelessness. Q’et’en Qenq’a means Elder’s House in the Dena’ina language.

With housing, they get their lives back
With housing, they get their lives back

With housing, Beau and Sarah are recovering, healing and working. Through Next Step, they were matched with an apartment that accepted them and their beloved dog, Hot Wheels.

Advisory Council applauds Assembly for adopting right course on homelessness
Advisory Council applauds Assembly for adopting right course on homelessness

Anchorage Assembly took the right step on Anchored Home, our community plan to help our neighbors move from homeless to stably housed.

Welcome new board and staff members
Welcome new board and staff members

Two long-time community leaders with experience addressing homelessness were ushered onto the ACEH board at the June 26 meeting, and a new staff member has joined as well.

Addressing youth homelessness
Addressing youth homelessness

Let’s celebrate a win that will help Alaska youth! The Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness took the lead on a new grant opportunity benefiting youth, and the result is the maximum $2 million over two years.

Bonus project opportunity for Anchorage Continuum of Care
Bonus project opportunity for Anchorage Continuum of Care

If you are a housing provider and are interested in learning about the opportunity for expanding your current CoC project or adding a new bonus project, join us for a short presentation and Q and A this Thursday at 3 p.m.

Case conferencing: Working together to help our neighbors
Case conferencing: Working together to help our neighbors

One way we assist our unhoused neighbors is by hosting regular case conferencing, which serve as a platform for sharing vital information about clients' situations, whereabouts, challenges and assets.

Street outreach and mobile medicine serve unsheltered clients
Street outreach and mobile medicine serve unsheltered clients

In partnership with SALA medics, our street outreach teams provide access to medical supplies and care to unsheltered clients reached during pop-up events and visits to camps.

Why property owners take a chance on our unhoused neighbors
Why property owners take a chance on our unhoused neighbors

Thao and her husband, Cory Detty, are among 15 landlords partnering with the Next Step housing collaboration led by the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. They say the program is working because it supports clients and property owners.

Next Step outdoors: ‘We’re all moving up’
Next Step outdoors: ‘We’re all moving up’

Through the Next Step housing collaboration, a veteran is finally housed and making use of benefits to which he’s entitled.

ACEH keeps focus on housing as answer to homelessness
ACEH keeps focus on housing as answer to homelessness

Today’s Supreme Court ruling in the City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson is disappointing but will not change the work of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness to provide needed supports for basic needs of our unsheltered neighbors.

Big steps for our unsheltered neighbors
Big steps for our unsheltered neighbors

Dozens of people living outdoors in Anchorage are getting a chance to transition from encampments directly to housing.

Together, we did it!
Together, we did it!

We started Next Step as a pilot to prove the concept of how working together, we could successfully house our neighbors coming out of homelessness.

Community shares best practices
Community shares best practices

Our Housing Retention Case Conferencing has generated helpful tools and tips for case managers working to ensure that clients who have been housed, stay housed.

Make-a-kit at home
Make-a-kit at home

Hosting a kit-making party is a fun and impactful way to gather friends and family while supporting neighbors experiencing homelessness.

Let’s collaborate on funding
Let’s collaborate on funding

Our community will soon begin our collaborative application for the annual grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A community furniture bank
A community furniture bank

Do you have extra furniture taking up space? Consider a donation to Shiloh Community Housing. The organization has stepped up to open Anchorage’s first furniture bank.

Number of people experiencing homelessness in Anchorage drops slightly
Number of people experiencing homelessness in Anchorage drops slightly

The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness led the count of those who were unsheltered. Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Catholic Social Services, Covenant House, RurAL CAP, SALA and Veterans Affairs contributed staff.