2025
Annual Report
Building Futures captures a year of collaboration, coordination and care. In 2025, ACEH worked behind the scenes and alongside partners to strengthen systems, tailor responses to individual needs and move Anchorage closer to a future where homelessness is rare, brief and one-time. Thank you for helping make this work possible.
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How we connect the pieces
A message from Interim Executive Director Jessica Parks
As we enter a new year, I’m reminded that building a future for our unhoused neighbors isn’t only about constructing homes or converting hotels into housing as essential as that is. It’s about strengthening the system that surrounds them. Together with our partners, we focus on building a true coalition: one that is strong and flexible, resilient and effective, ready to offer help when, where and how it’s needed.
What goes unseen
A message from Board Chair Gabe Layman
Our community often focuses on visible homelessness — people living in camps, sleeping in doorways, and enduring harsh conditions in public view. But most people experiencing homelessness are invisible to the public.
At the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, we see ourselves in that unseen reality.
Building futures: With strategic, proven supports, people move ahead in life.
‘The help is out there’
Jayson is settling into early adulthood with a love of competitive chess, his own place and a good job, doing for himself in ways that seemed impossible just a few years back.
Early help is key
A runway to stability
Last year, hundreds of Anchorage residents living on the edge of housing loss reached out for emergency help. Leftover federal COVID-relief dollars became a short-term but powerful tool — preventing evictions, stabilizing households, and opening doors for people who had been sleeping outdoors or in shelters. Most of the funding had to be spent by Sept. 30, leaving little room for delay.
Honoring partners and volunteers in 2025
The work of helping our unhoused neighbors along a path to stable housing couldn’t be done without community support. Our annual awards recognize volunteers and partners for outstanding contributions.