The vote did not come without concerns that Mayor Dave Bronson‘s administration had failed to plan for the negative consequences on nearby neighborhoods that come with the expanded housing.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Anchorage Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday night to expand the Sullivan Arena’s capacity to 360 clients total. The vote by the body allows for the increase of capacity to continue to the end of January 2023, and to include several reporting requirements.
Assembly member Chris Constant said he believes the warming center constitutes a capacity increase already, and that the Tuesday night vote is a rubber stamp of approval on the mayor’s choice to go ahead and move more homeless clients into the arena. “If we chose a different direction in 2021, we would be out of the Sullivan, I believe, six, eight maybe 10 months ago,” he said, “because we would have other facilities where people could be humanely housed, treated, and not again be back here in an unacceptable facility that frankly is a disgrace... and we all know it.”
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