News and Updates
Stay informed about the latest developments in our efforts to end homelessness in Anchorage. Here, you'll find updates on our programs, community initiatives, success stories, and ways you can get involved. Together, we can create lasting change and provide stable housing solutions for all. Visit regularly or subscribe to our monthly newsletter to see how we are making a difference and how you can contribute to our mission.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
Through the Next Step housing collaboration, a veteran is finally housed and making use of benefits to which he’s been entitled all along.
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
Dozens of people living outdoors in Anchorage are getting a chance to transition from encampments directly to housing.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Housing is the solution
Our belief is simple yet powerful. When people are supported in a place to call home, they can flourish and thrive in every aspect of their lives
Seeking diverse voices
Be part of the solutions to homelessness! The community’s homelessness response system needs your voice.
Thank you, students
At South Anchorage High, students went all-in for a fundraiser in which rolls of duct tape were sold … to tape teachers to the wall!