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A look at Anchorage's emergency cold weather shelter plan

Season 2024 Episode 8 | 4m 06s

In Anchorage, a 150-bed shelter opened on October 31st in an unused municipal building. It was supposed to be the final piece of Anchorage’s emergency cold weather 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. Alaska Public Media's Jeremy Hsieh has this story.

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