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2023-2028 Anchored Home Strategic Plan
This living document focuses on our efforts to harness and direct available resources to drive down homelessness. The community helped shape these strategies.
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Annual Report 2024
“What a dynamic year for Anchorage in addressing homelessness. We strengthened partnerships with the Municipality and nonprofits and enacted a proven approach to bring the focus where it belongs: housing.” - Meg Zaletel, Executive Director
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Documents
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.
Stories & Updates
Check out recent mission moments below.
Meg Zaletel, executive director of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness and a two-term Anchorage Assembly member, has been named to the Anchorage Chamber’s ATHENA Society. She joins 13 other Anchorage community and business leaders inducted into the 2025 class.
The annual Point-in-Time Count of those experiencing homelessness in Anchorage took place Jan. 28-30, asking our unhoused neighbors where they spent the night on Jan. 27.
Are you interested in helping to shape and guide Anchorage’s approach to homelessness? Consider joining the Anchorage Homeless Prevention and Response System Advisory Council.
The Jan. 18 workshop held at Catholic Social Services’ 3rd Avenue Resource and Navigation Center used deep listening, rapport building and brainstorming to build a framework for action and improvements to Anchorage’s homelessness response.
When we provide a new coat or a sturdy pair of boots, we’re not just ensuring someone stays warm. We are making a connection to resources and long-term solutions.
Alaskans, you have a unique way to give back while applying for your PFD: Pick.Click.Give.
This program allows you to donate a portion of your Permanent Fund dividend to causes that matter, like helping people experiencing homelessness right here in Anchorage. Donations start at just $25, and every contribution adds up to real impact.
Our community is considering a new opportunity to provide housing and other supports for youth. The federal government recently announced that the Anchorage Continuum of Care is eligible to apply for a new round of grants through the federal Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program.
Our community is taking part in the annual Point-in-Time Count of those experiencing homelessness.
The federal government on Friday announced the largest amount of federal funding to the Continuum of Care program in history. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program provides housing and supportive services for individuals experiencing homelessness.
At ACEH, our AmeriCorps volunteers are getting right to it, helping with street outreach, walk-in clients and later this month, the Point-in-Time Count of individuals experiencing homelessness.
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 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.
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.
In the first week after Anchorage’s early, record-breaking October snowfall, 200 beds of emergency shelter were filled.
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
The LaFrance administration has unveiled its one-year plan to address homelessness through four broad tactics
In 2023, homelessness across the U.S. reached record levels, with more than 653,000 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January.
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.
How do we reach our unsheltered neighbors? Street outreach! It's how we know who is unsheltered and where to find them.
Fourteen people from an encampment just off the Coastal Trail near Elderberry Park now have a home.
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.