Thea Agnew-Benben
68:30 - 69:08
"We served 2,704 unique clients in emergency shelter. And for an individual, the median length of stay was between 8 and 50 days. For families, it's between 30 and 41 days. Our shelters were 95% occupied for those who served individuals and 87% occupied for those who serve families."
“We served 2,704 unique clients in emergency shelter. And for an individual, the median length of stay was between 8 and 50 days. For families, it's between 30 and 41 days. Our shelters were 95% occupied for those who served individuals and 87% occupied for those who serve families.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Benben
- Timestamp
- 68:30 – 69:08
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Captured at
- May 24, 2026
From the transcript
We served 2,704 unique clients in emergency shelter. And for an individual, the median length of stay was between 8 and 50 days. For families, it's between 30 and 41 days. Our shelters were 95% occupied for those who served individuals and 87% occupied for those who serve families. We have done, to get to Member Baldwin-Day's question earlier in the meeting, we've been doing some debrief both with our shelter providers and with our internal partners around what did we learn this last winter from shelter.
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