The project seeks to develop the former Alaska Native hospital site that later became a major homeless encampment.

Homeless people could choose to go anywhere in the Lower 48 — preferably somewhere warmer, such as California — or elsewhere in Alaska. A homeless man at an encampment near Third Avenue and ...

Alaska overall has seen homelessness rise 40.8% since 2019, according to the data. On one night in January 2024, there were 2,686 people in Alaska experiencing literal homelessness, ...

Four homeless people died in Anchorage, Alaska this week amid a “snow emergency” that blanked parts of the city with more than two feet in just 48 hours.

Brian Wilson, the executive director for the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homeless, said that overcrowding is endemic to rural Alaska. “You see it in house after house,” Wilson said.

“This is skid row in Alaska,” Perry said. Unlike other metro areas where the homeless congregate on streets and under bridges, Anchorage is a vast municipality of 1,961 square miles ...

As Alaska homeless face cold and bears, a mayor's plan to offer one-way airfare out reveals a bigger crisis A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter in Anchorage and ...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, worked on an amendment to the 2021 American Rescue Plan that secured $800 million nationally for students experiencing homelessness nationwide.

A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope.

A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska's biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to ...

As Alaska homeless face cold and bears, a mayor's plan to offer one-way airfare out reveals a bigger crisis A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter in Anchorage and ...