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.
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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!
Introducing Anchored Home 2023-2028: Our plan to solve homelessness
Anchored Home, our community’s five-year plan to address homelessness in Anchorage, provides an action-oriented guide to increase housing, grow partnerships and ensure people receive supports tailored to their needs.
Care and concern turn into action
Twice a month, volunteers help us assemble kits of essential supplies that we give away at regular street outreach pop-up events and visits to camps of those who are unsheltered. We couldn’t do this without our volunteers!
Housing: Not a one and done
When someone takes the big step from homeless to housed, they sometimes need supports to stay housed. What happens when their housing voucher runs out? What if issues arise and they don’t have a case manager?
Street outreach team connects
By Zach Zears, Coordinated Entry specialist
My focus at the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness is on street outreach, one of the ways we assist our community, housed and unhoused.
Focus on housing retention
Our community has a new way to help our neighbors who have been housed, stay housed.
In search of fair funding
HUD’s allocation is based on cities’ overall population rather than the population of people who are experiencing homelessness.
Comings and goings
Changes at the Coalition include a bittersweet goodbye, a promotion and welcomes to a new board member and two new staff members.
Stanford students volunteer and learn in Anchorage
A student-led group from Stanford University spent their spring break in Anchorage learning about housing and solutions to homelessness.
‘Making a life change’
Graceful Touch, a new and growing social services agency, is a key partner in the Coalition’s Next Step collaborative housing program.
Help us help our neighbors!
We are supporting the Municipality of Anchorage’s request to the Legislature for funds to keep the East 56th Avenue Shelter open year-round. Your voice will help us amplify our message!