Anchorage has put tens of millions of dollars toward converting several former hotels into housing.
The city also helped fund the purchase of the former Sockeye Inn, which last year was converted into Catholic Social Services’Complex Care facility, at the former Sockeye Inn is at C Street and Fireweed Lane in Midtown Anchorage. Photographed on Sept. 19, 2022.
Vaughn Munn, 81, a U.S. Navy Vietnam veteran and long-time Alaskan, was the first person to move into the supportive housing facility at the former Golden Lion on Thursday. “He can’t afford assisted living. He makes $7.90 too much to qualify for Medicaid to get into a real assisted living home. $7.90 — isn’t that insane?” Short said, also saying his income is Social Security through the VA.Volunteers, from left, Sarah Short, Mike Klitscher and Billy Godwin helped moved belongings for Vaughn Munn, 81, as he relocated to the supportive housing facility at the former Golden Lion on Thursday. “All the collections of a lifetime here,” said Munn.
The conversions will help people “who are choosing between which bills to pay, have a safe place to live so they can get back on their feet. It’s no secret that the housing costs in Anchorage has been increasing dramatically over the last decade,” Bockenstedt said.
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