Anchorage’s colder weather is prompting more people to seek shelter inside the Sullivan Arena. City Homeless Coordinator Alexis Johnson said the shelter has been at capacity for several days, triggering an assembly-approved plan to add more bed space.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage’s colder weather is prompting more people to seek shelter inside the Sullivan Arena. City Homeless Coordinator Alexis Johnson said the shelter has been at capacity for several days, triggering an assembly-approved plan to add more bed space starting Wednesday night.
Unlike last year — when a warming tent was set up in the arena parking lot — an area inside the Sullivan Arena is being used to bring people out of the cold. Johnson said people can spend the night in the area, get warm and eat snacks, but aren’t supposed to sleep there. The limit of people the assembly has approved for the Sullivan is 200, and then only under specific circumstances. Johnson said she expected to reach that number by the end of the week or as early as Wednesday night. More space should be available soon.
“We’re hoping the administration will implement that as quickly as possible so that we don’t have to worry too much about. If all of these other places are at capacity, what do we do,” Assembly Member Felix Rivera said.Assembly members also changed the way they’re going forward to try and move homeless people into the city-owned Golden Lion Hotel.“We took the Golden Lion out as part of the emergency shelter plan,” Rivera said. “Because we don’t intend on using it as shelter.
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