Kathleen McLaughlin
44:52 - 45:33
"we took 15 people from the Safety Center and 11 have continued to stay in shelter of those 15, and that's been 10 days. So that we view as a, as a quiet win."
“we took 15 people from the Safety Center and 11 have continued to stay in shelter of those 15, and that's been 10 days. So that we view as a, as a quiet win.”
- Speaker
- Kathleen McLaughlin
- Timestamp
- 44:52 – 45:33
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
Next Monday, we'll add another 10 beds. That will be done at Homeless Connect, which is expecting to have a large homeless population coming for services, and we will fill those beds from there, and the goal is to try to target the highest areas of being outside. One of the gaps that we do have and we continue to have is, uh, we were fortunate with going to the Safety Center. We took 15 people from the Safety Center and 11 have continued to stay in shelter of those 15, and that's been 10 days. So that we view as a, as a quiet win.
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