The task force called upon by the Anchorage Assembly to draft plans for sheltering hundreds of homeless residents this winter has urged the city to open shelters in two city-owned buildings — the former Golden Lion Hotel and the Dempsey Anderson Ice Arena.
The former Golden Lion hotel, now owned by the Municipality of Anchorage, is seen on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. to quickly draft plans for sheltering hundreds of homeless residents this winter has urged the city to open shelters in two city-owned buildings — the former Golden Lion Hotel in Midtown and the Dempsey Anderson Ice Arena in Spenard.
Its proposal comes as city officials are scrambling to open enough emergency winter shelter for more than 350 people living unsheltered in Anchorage — and as the Sept. 30 closing date for the city-sanctioned homeless camp at Centennial Park Campground rapidly approaches. The city also faces a legal deadline to open emergency shelter. Anchorage law requires officials to open emergency shelter once temperatures drop below 45 degrees and “when a lack of available shelter options poses a danger to the life and health of unsheltered people.”• Use the Golden Lion Hotel as a non-congregate emergency shelter. It is city-owned, has 85 hotel rooms that are already furnished, could be activated immediately and is currently unused.
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