This June, Anchorage saw its highest monthly outdoor death count in at least the past two years. The city's new shelter won’t be ready before winter, according to the mayor's administration.
Six people died outside in Anchorage in June, their bodies found in city parks or just off city streets.
Prunes said she doesn’t know how her brother-in-law died. But he’d been homeless in Anchorage for years, bouncing between shelters and outdoor camps. Six outdoor deaths in one month is about four times higher than the average monthly number of people found dead outside in the city over the past two years. Outdoor deaths dropped to three in July, but it’s still about twice the average monthly total.
The city opened Centennial Campground in mid-June to homeless campers. It brought in dozens of people by bus who had stayed at the Sullivan Arena shelter and who had nowhere else to go to Centennial. At one point in July, the city said more than 200 people were staying at the campground.Advocates point to a host of risks to camping outdoors, even at sanctioned sites like Centennial.
It’s not clear how many of the people were homeless at the time of their deaths because police data doesn’t specify housing status. Family of John Prunes said they still don’t know the cause of his death. Prunes worked as a commercial fisherman during the summers in Bristol Bay and stayed at homeless shelters and outdoor camps in Anchorage when his money ran out, family members said.
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