44:49 - 45:54
"In 2021, when we had started our homeless and rental and rental and utility assistance program, when we first— that night when we first brought it to the community, I mean, the hall was full of people, and I didn't know that I know that we do need that service, but I didn't know how many families needed it. But when we went to sleep that night, I only— we woke up the next day, we had 15 applications, but our program can only accept 2 first applications that we receive per month because we don't have enough funding for it to help everybody."
“In 2021, when we had started our homeless and rental and rental and utility assistance program, when we first— that night when we first brought it to the community, I mean, the hall was full of people, and I didn't know that I know that we do need that service, but I didn't know how many families needed it. But when we went to sleep that night, I only— we woke up the next day, we had 15 applications, but our program can only accept 2 first applications that we receive per month because we don't have enough funding for it to help everybody.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 44:49 – 45:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
In 2021, when we had started our homeless and rental and rental and utility assistance program, when we first— that night when we first brought it to the community, I mean, the hall was full of people, and I didn't know that I know that we do need that service, but I didn't know how many families needed it. But when we went to sleep that night, I only— we woke up the next day, we had 15 applications, but our program can only accept 2 first applications that we receive per month because we don't have enough funding for it to help everybody. And so we went through from 2 applications each month out of that 15 applications that we received. So, but just to let you know that we didn't know that our families, they live in like groups of 10 people in one family. And so you would have a 2 to 3 bedroom and you would have 10 to 15 people that would live in there.
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