Here is a compromise to the Bronson centralized shelter idea

 

Let's pretend members of the Anchorage Assembly have a brain cell they know how to use.  

With the exemption of Assembly District 1 where they are too many shelters and services have reached capacity in that district.  

 

Let's lower the capacity of the Centralized Anchorage Homeless Shelter turn it in more of a processing center where you were then ship them to other parts of town.  Municipality of Anchorage and Anchorage School District have property they are not using for any use what so ever.  

 

District 2 small shelter location would be located at Bartlett High School.  Require a vote of the Chugiak and Eagle River neighborhood before you put a small shelter in that region.  

 

District 3 location could be located at Lyn Ary Park and the Romig and West High School complex for a small shelter.  

 

Since the main processing center will be located in Assembly District 4 at Tudor and Elmore.  With some agreement with the University of Alaska Anchorage you could build a structure at Goose Lake Park and put some at Campbell Park in the south end.  

 

Assembly District 5 where I live you could put couple of small shelters at Arnold Muldoon Park, there is some land by Totem Theater close to where I live that would also work as long as there is a fence to the east end of this property.  You could also put some at Cheney Lake Park and some undeveloped land at Russian Jack Park. 

 

District 6 would be like District 2 where you would need a vote of Girdwood citizens before you put a shelter there.  Places where can put a shelter would be Johns Park, Undeveloped places in Ruth Arcand Park and Homestead Park.  

 

This is idea of a compromise to accept the main shelter idea by proposing small shelters all over Anchorage.  

Here is the presentations of the Anchorage Centralized Shelter

The actual property of the proposed Anchorage homeless shelter

This is what the Anchorage Centralized Shelter at Tudor and Elmore will look like 

 Here are the links to the presentation the Bronson administration has done on the shelter.

 

https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Documents/Webpage%20-%20Committee%20on%20Housing%20and%20Homelessness/NAVIGATION%20CENTER%20SLIDE.pdf 

https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Documents/Webpage%20-%20Committee%20on%20Housing%20and%20Homelessness/20210118_Adult%20homelessness%20services%20system%20planning%282%29.pdf 
 Here are the links look and decide for yourself if this is good idea or not. 

Bronson homeless shelter is an idea that better solution for Anchorage

 

Bronson mass shelter idea is better solution for Anchorage.  In the pass 6 year ago the Berkowitz administration the shelter idea is laying on the ground, inside a bus shelter or in a porta potty in a local park.

 

This is solution of the Anchorage Assembly

                               Sleep on the ground

                                Sleep in the park 

 

                            Sleep in a bus shelter

 

                        Sleep in a porta potty

 

What the Anchorage Assembly thanks of the Bronson centralized shelter idea.
 

 

The Bronson idea of a mass shelter brings services together with housing and employment options.  The cost of 15 million is hard bargain to sell.  Truth is the cost of buying the Old Alaska club location instead of developing would had cost more than 15 million dollars.  We could also have neighborhood shelters along with this a central hub which is what this is.  Here is a link to the Bronson shelter plan

https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Documents/Webpage%20-%20Committee%20ntSLIDE.pdf

 

Recently the University area community Council voted 25-1 against having this proposal in their back yard.  

 

It is time for the community to support a solution instead of talking about it which is what the Anchorage Assembly and Former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz have done about this problem.