Thea Agnew-Bemben
31:02 - 31:52
“about 3 weeks ago, we did our first push focusing on Midtown because we knew there were a lot of people sleeping out in Midtown. The next one we went to Beens and downtown and Mountain View, and then in this next one that Lila was just talking about, we're going to focus on people who are kind of using the safety center every night.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Bemben
- Timestamp
- 31:02 – 31:52
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
So about 3 weeks ago, we did our first push focusing on Midtown because we knew there were a lot of people sleeping out in Midtown. The next one we went to Beens and downtown and Mountain View, and then in this next one that Lila was just talking about, we're going to focus on people who are kind of using the safety center every night. And then we also have an abatement that's going to happen next Tuesday, so it's posted right now, and that's in the far north Bicentennial Park area. So we have outreach going out there already. I talked to them today and they made contact with a few folks in that area today, so we'll be also saving some of those beds for people that want to come in from that abatement, um, and then we have a few other places where we know we've got folks ready.
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