Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness

06/10/2026

Please spread the word! Meeting is happening TODAY!

Are you someone who has experienced homelessness or are close to someone who has? You may want to check out the Homeless Resource Advocacy Council!

Meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays at our office, 3427 E. Tudor Road, Suite A.

Virtual option: https://bit.ly/HRACmeeting

06/10/2026

Missed our communitywide meeting on Friday on HUD's new funding opportunity? No worries! We've got links to the recording and slides on our NOFO webpage: https://www.aceh.org/nofo

You'll also find a registration link there for the National Alliance to End Homelessness webinar STARTING NOW on the HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity. A recording and additional materials also will be posted on our NOFO page.

We will be launching the local project application soon on that same page. Additional resources are being added regularly.

Stay informed and help our community submit a strong, competitive application for these federal dollars.

06/09/2026

Join us TOMORROW, June 10, on the west end of the Delaney Park Strip for a community resource event. Everyone is welcome!

Shelter and housing resources, substance misuse treatment, health screenings, counseling support, public benefits and FOOD!

Need more information? Reach out to [email protected]

06/06/2026

Alaska is proud to be one of just ten communities nationwide selected to participate in the Right at Home initiative, a groundbreaking effort to prevent homelessness before it starts.

This week, Alaska partners joined leaders from across the country in San Jose to share ideas, learn from proven prevention models, and strengthen our work to build a targeted homelessness prevention system that keeps people housed and stable. Together, we’re moving upstream to create lasting solutions for Alaskans at risk of homelessness.

06/03/2026

Let's bring our community together to create a competitive application for the FY26 HUD Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

This year’s NOFO looks very different than past ones. Priorities are treatment, self-sufficiency and public safety. Nationwide, one-third of the grant funds will go to new project types that have not been previously funded: transitional housing and supportive services only projects such as street outreach, clinics or childcare.

Join us for a communitywide meeting of those interested in these grants for local projects that can change lives. First-time applicants encouraged!

Meeting date: Friday, June 5, 1 p.m.
Virtual: https://bit.ly/26NOFOmeeting
In person: Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness office, 3427 E. Tudor Road, Suite A, Anchorage, AK 99507

Learn more, download the NOFO, and get a link for a HUD webinar on Thursday: aceh.org/nofo

06/03/2026

🍏Every day of the week, Anchorage churches, food pantries, helper teams and social service sites are helping our neighbors with food pantries and hot meals.

✅Scan the QR code on the image or cut and paste the whole June list:https://foodbankofalaska.org/hubfs/Website/Resource%20Library/FBA_Southcentral_Food_Distribution_Calendar.pdf

Second page of the PDF includes a map!

💙Thank you to all and especially to the Food Bank for coordinating and supplying!

05/29/2026

🏠 Big news! Housing Alaskans is funding 77 new homes across 13 Alaska communities. And for the first time, one of the projects supported by Housing Alaskans is in Anchorage! It's Airport Heights Senior Housing.

Alaskans from Chevak to Sitka will benefit. Teachers. Seniors. Workforce families.

Storm-impacted villages.

$1.5M in gap funding → leverages $60M+ → stalled projects move forward.

Alaska needs shovels in the ground. This is how you do it.

Pictured: Anchorage from the air in September 2025.

05/25/2026

💙💙💙On this day of reflection, some good news:

🏡In the last year and a half, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in Anchorage has dropped nearly 40%.

⚙️Targeted funds for veteran housing and outreach make a difference.

✔️Our office is closed for the Memorial Day holiday. See you on Tuesday!

05/22/2026

The good news: A January count suggests that the number of people in our community who have no safe place to sleep is dropping. More shelter space has opened, and more people are taking advantage of it.

The reality: Hundreds of people remain unsheltered: Sleeping outdoors, in tents, in doorways, in vehicles and in places not fit for anyone to live.

The crunch: Shelters are full, but that doesn’t mean more shelter is the answer. We need housing for those with very low incomes. Because housing IS the answer.

Thanks to the Anchorage Daily News for putting a spotlight on the situation. Read the story: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2026/05/21/fewer-people-are-experiencing-homelessness-in-anchorage-as-providers-say-shelter-capacity-is-insufficient/

05/20/2026

Our colleagues at the Downtown Soup Kitchen Hope Center want to expand their job training program by adding space through the purchase of this building to serve those who have experienced homelessness or are coming out of incarceration. The organization has grown from its start as a soup kitchen operating out of a little red house on Fourth Avenue to include shelter, transitional housing, culinary training, a food truck and more!

These programs provide needed opportunity for our unhoused neighbors.

Thanks to the Anchorage Daily News for the story.

The nonprofit wants to buy Plaza 201, a three-story office building located across the street from the Downtown Hope Center’s main women’s shelter and soup kitchen.