Shelters in Anchorage are already full as winter sets in — and the city is trying to keep up with demand.
Officials recently opened 50 extra beds between two city-run homeless shelters, according to Thea Agnew Bemben with the mayor’s office. Even so, people are still turned away from muni-funded and independent shelters every night.
“The data tells us, right now, that we have more people wanting to come into our shelters than we can accommodate that night,” she said. “We generally get people in within a few days. So it just may be that the moment that they say, ‘Hey, I need a bed,’ that bed might not be available at that location right then.”…