Shelter beds opening up soon are a stepping stone to stability. But a bad choice, a bad actor or bad luck can quickly reverse progress.
Impound notices are posted on a chain-link fence where a motley array of vehicles — many being used as shelter — are parked at an unofficial homeless campground along Third Avenue in Anchorage on Oct. 2, 2023. Towing began a few days later.
“We believe we’re going to have 522 beds coming online, the most that any administration has ever had going into emergency cold weather sheltering season,” A worker with Rent-a-Can hauls away handwashing stations from the unofficial homeless campground along Third Avenue. They don’t work in freezing temperatures.
“I may be sad every day,” she said. “But I just appreciate — I just say, ‘Thank you father God, for another day.’” “I bounced off the curb and — pfft,” he said. “I didn’t know it, but I had a seizure yesterday and didn’t even know it.” “I don’t really have any place to park anything, any of my vehicles,” he said. “I’m trying to figure out how in the world I can do it, I don’t know. … I don’t want to lose my motorhome, that’s the only place I got to live now.”
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