ACEH keeps focus on housing as answer to homelessness

The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness’s Next Step program is working this summer to quickly move dozens of our unsheltered neighbors from homelessness to housed. Here, a resident hugs a street outreach team member who is helping her get into housing. (ACEH photo. June 24, 2024)

For immediate release
June 28, 2024
Contact: Lisa Demer, external affairs director, 907-312-9547

Today’s U.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.

The Anchorage Assembly recently updated the Municipality’s abatement code to provide more tools to ensure the health and safety of those in encampments and the community at large. People need a place to rest, to sleep, to simply be.

The solution to homelessness is housing, and our community has mapped out action steps in our five-year strategic plan, Anchored Home.

“We hold tight to our commitment to ensure that homelessness in Anchorage is rare, brief and one-time,” said Meg Zaletel, ACEH executive director.

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