“Why did I change my mind?” said Anchorage Assembly member Felix Rivera, who has faced pushback over using the Arctic Rec Center as a homeless shelter. “Reality slapped me in the face pretty hard. It was a bit of a come-to-Jesus moment, really.”
“I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking, ‘Not in my neighborhood,’” Rivera said. “But here’s the thing: We need to move beyond these two examples, beyond these gut reactions to what shelter can and should be in our community.”
Rivera’s attempt to take the two locations off the table was part of a resolution he proposed for a public engagement campaign he dubbed a “The Assembly voted 7-4 to support the public engagement campaign – but wouldn’t drop the two shelter location ideas. Public safety in his district has suffered from spillover effects of hosting the mass shelter at the Sullivan Arena since 2020.
, plans to host a lot of committee meetings and town hall meetings this spring and summer about permanent, year-round, low-barrier shelters. “I don’t know that it gets us anywhere,” she said. “There’s a lot of discussion about, ‘Oh, it’s a clean slate,’ or ‘This is gonna be a whole new thing.’ We’ve been doing the same thing for years – it’s the same thing. And then we get feedback we don’t like, and then we try to do a new thing. And it’s the same thing.
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