Two Coalition staff members recently have been promoted to leadership positions that include implementation of Anchored Home, our five-year strategic plan to solve homelessness.

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!

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.

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!

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?

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. 

Changes at the Coalition include a bittersweet goodbye, a promotion and welcomes to a new board member and two new staff members.

A student-led group from Stanford University spent their spring break in Anchorage learning about housing and solutions to homelessness.

The funds will allow service providers to continue projects already underway as well as launch one new project providing permanent supportive housing for youth and young adults.

Our community’s commitment to address homelessness was evident with recent awards totaling $4.4 million to the Anchorage Continuum of Care from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A local church assembled hundreds of kits with food and first aid essentials for our unhoused neighbors during a March volunteer event.

Anchorage neighbors who are living outdoors converge at regular pop-ups: Tuesdays at Cuddy Family Midtown Park and Thursdays at Davis Park in Mountain View.

Trained teams from agencies that work with people experiencing homelessness fanned out across Anchorage Jan. 30–31 to count how many are unsheltered in our community.