One quote from our conversations really paints the picture we all must work to change: “Everything in this city works together to create the housing crisis.”
Published: 15 minutes agoAt YWCA Alaska, we are on a mission to end racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. We know our city’s ongoing housing crisis disproportionately affects women and people of color. With this in mind, we recently held a community housing forum with various community leaders from the Assembly, Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s office, the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Legislature.
Our neighbors want a website or office dedicated to helping people who are unhoused or unstably housed find and understand the resources available to them.1. Stand up a website and/or office where people can easily access and understand the resources they need to be more stably housed.2. Make it easier to construct convenient, dense, walkable mixed-use neighborhoods , as envisioned in the Anchorage 2040 Land Use Plan.
4. Make Anchorage safer to walk, bike and roll through by committing to transportation equity in ways that make non-vehicular travel safe, enjoyable, desirable and efficient. Pedestrians, wheelchair users and cyclists must be given equal consideration in all transportation investments.
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