Thea Agnew-Bemben
12:48 - 13:16
"one of them is to be able to do short-term assisted living for people who otherwise would be— Uh-huh. In shelter as a way to bridge them into the benefits that are needed to get them into actual assisted living."
“one of them is to be able to do short-term assisted living for people who otherwise would be— Uh-huh. In shelter as a way to bridge them into the benefits that are needed to get them into actual assisted living.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Bemben
- Timestamp
- 12:48 – 13:16
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
And these are all things to test responses to the gaps that we're observing. So for example, one of them is to be able to do short-term assisted living for people who otherwise would be— Uh-huh. In shelter as a way to bridge them into the benefits that are needed to get them into actual assisted living. So, and then we have a bunch of other ones. So that's, it's a big lift.
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