A converted hotel now shelters 83 medically fragile and elderly homeless residents, filling a critical need and pointing to a model for the city’s ongoing response.
option for unhoused people to go, which has almost totally eclipsed it in public discussions of homelessness this summer.
Ship Creek Community Assets, a nonprofit entity created to purchase the property, negotiated the sale with the previous building owner earlier this year. Calista Corp., Chugach Alaska, Doyon, the Municipality of Anchorage, Providence Health and Services, the Rasmuson Foundation and Weidner Apartment Homes kicked in $4.
“The homeless population in general is getting older, and health care is a real issue for people who are homeless, those two issues go hand in hand. So we find a lot of people experiencing homelessness have chronic health issues,” Dempsey said.Complex Care opened just as the city was upending the homeless response system anew, closing its mass-care site and directing people across town to a campground with minimal staff, resources or planning.
Instead, easily treatable wounds worsen. Medications disappear and go unfilled. Restorative sleep is impossible. Ailments snowball until there’s an emergency so dire, people go to the ER. Though Watts tries not to speak badly about any of the shelters she’s been to, she bristled when The accommodations at Centennial were far less than at even an overburdened, repurposed facility like the Sullivan. While plenty of people staying there were familiar with outdoor camping and physically capable of taking care of themselves, others she saw couldn’t handle needs as basic as washing in the shower facilities.
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