The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday narrowly approved a $2.3 million contract with local firm MASH Property Management to run the additional shelter beds.
Dozens more Anchorage emergency winter homeless shelter beds are expected to come online at the Alex Hotel and Suites, at 4615 Spenard Road, after the Anchorage Assembly's approval of a $2.3 million contract with MASH Property Management.
Hundreds of people are living unsheltered around the city, staying in encampments, on the streets, living in vehicles and other places not meant for human habitation. At a meeting last week, the city’s contractor for third-party oversight of the shelters“The temperature is dropping, and with snow on the ground, it is critically important that we open the additional beds,” said Farina Brown, special assistant in homelessness and health to Mayor Suzanne LaFrance.
Several Assembly members balked at MASH’s per-bed pricing, at $125 per day, which is more expensive than Henning’s roughly $98 daily cost per bed. Assembly member Karen Bronga said she was shocked by the price difference., and and about Henning becoming the sole organization to handle winter shelter. Members at the time said that if the winter’s operations went sideways under Henning, the city would have little recourse to change contractors. The administration then halved the proposal.
That leaves the city with 332 emergency winter shelter beds, instead of 400 as planned. With the 56th Avenue shelter, that’s a total of 532 city shelter beds for single adults.
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