Consultant Cathleen McLaughlin said she asked people staying at the Sullivan shelter where they'll go when it closes. “Many are in the queue for a voucher or a housing opportunity, but they’re on waitlists,” she said. “They don’t have a place to go.”
With fresh snow and cold temperatures back, a shelter consultant on Tuesday begrudgingly recommended the Anchorage Assembly keep the Sullivan Arena open as an emergency cold weather shelter through May, a month longer than planned. , Cathleen McLaughlin, last month to conduct third-party oversight of the municipality’s emergency cold weather shelters, the biggest of which is the Sullivan Arena. The shelters are set to close April 30.
“Many are in the queue for a voucher or a housing opportunity, but they’re on waitlists,” she said. “They don’t have a place to go.” At its Tuesday evening meeting, the Assembly did not act on her recommendation to keep the Sullivan shelter open longer, and is moving forward withAssembly member Felix Rivera, who chairs the Housing and Homelessness Committee, acknowledged there will be consequences of closing the shelters.
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