“Our focus is to get them into housing long-term, and to just continue to chip away until everybody is successfully housed,” Housing and Homeless Coordinator Alexis Johnson said.
Many of those clients are unsure of where they’ll be going after they leave the Sullivan, but grateful that authorities aren’t asking them to leave on April 30.
“I think it’s great. I like it. I have two dogs here, so I take care of them while I’m here,” said client Cindy Herr, who occasionally uses a walker. “‘Cause right now, I really don’t got nowhere to go with them. I don’t want to be out on the street again. I was out on the streets for nine days with them before I came here. And I didn’t like it. It was scary.”“It’s inhumane to throw people out that can’t take care of themselves.
Garrett said it is a struggle to get access to the resources people like him need. He said that for some of the clients, just getting out to grab food is a struggle. The Anchorage Assembly’s decision to extend operations will allow for up to 90 clients to continue sheltering at the arena until the end of May. Clients will continue to be accepted until the end of April.
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