The Municipality of Anchorage opened a new, 100-bed homeless shelter called Linda’s Place on Tuesday. Another shelter on East 56th Avenue will decrease its capacity by the same number of beds.
Thea Agnew Bemben, special assistant to the mayor’s office, said it’s necessary to make that reduction because it’s over capacity and needs repairs. Smaller shelters make it easier to connect people to services, she said.
“Every person’s circumstances are unique,” she said. “And in order to really help people be able to get into shelter and take advantage of the services that are there and then make a safe exit, that means we have to really be able to engage with each person.”…