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A look at Anchorage's emergency cold weather shelter plan

A man in a dark green jacket sits on a cot alone inside a building that has been converted into a shelter.
A man sits on a cot at Anchorage's new emergency cold weather shelter on Thursday, November 2, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

In Anchorage a 150-bed shelter opened on Oct. 31 in an unused municipal building. It was supposed to be the final piece of Anchorage's emergency shelter plan for this winter. But less than a month into the winter shelter season, there's a waitlist with about 1,000 people on it. Jeremy Hsieh has this story.

Jeremy Hsieh is the training editor of the Alaska Desk.
Reach Jeremy at jhsieh@alaskapublic.org or 907-550-8428.