While each candidate for the new North Anchorage Assembly seat that attended a Monday forum agreed that addressing homelessness should be prioritized, several criticized elements of the city’s current approach.
Left to right: North Anchorage Assembly candidates Daniel Volland, Stephanie Taylor, Robin Phillips, Tasha Hotch and Robyn Forbes talk about homelessness and other issues at the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce's District 1 candidate forum on Monday, June 13, 2022. The event was held at the 49th State Brewing Company.
While each candidate agreed the city should prioritize addressing homelessness, several criticized elements of its current approach. “Where are those people going to go? We don’t have the capacity to shelter, the housing, right now. Our nonprofits are going to be full,” he said.Taylor, a political ally of the mayor, said that under his leadership the city is “finally moving forward with some possible solutions, but we do have a long way to go.”
Phillips, an administrative director for the Ted Stevens Foundation, said she believes a collaborative approach to addressing homelessness is needed in Anchorage, between the city, nonprofits, business and residents, in order to provide individuals all of the services they need to “move forward in a healthy way.”
Hotch said she recently spoke with an old coworker who had been living at Sullivan Arena and that while he has received help to find more stable housing, that help is temporary and is set to last for just a year, she said.
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