Is going to be presenting to come up to the table.

So please remember to say your name and then we'll move forward with the presentation.

So starting with Ms.

Nevin.

Good afternoon.

Thea Agnew Bemben, special assistant to the mayor.

Kimberly Rash, Anchorage Health Department.

Becky Wimpierson, municipal manager.

Ownabras, director of the Office of Management and Budget.

And CCM Fleet Green Chief staff to the mayor.

Thank you.

So we'll go through our presentation and just a very brief reminder.

We will take questions during the presentation, but we also want to keep things moving.

I understand there's a lot of content.

So we'll try to keep to the hour.

And then also those on the phone, please remember to mute yourselves.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Tira Braille.

So as I was talking to some of you about some of these items, people mentioned that they would like a refresher on the overall strategy and kind of see where these shelter items fit within the overall strategy.

That's why there's more content in here than maybe would otherwise be here.

So please uh tell me to speed up if I'm spending too long on stuff that's not of interest to you.

And we will spend kind of the middle and biggest section talking about the actual items that are before you tomorrow.

First, I want to just to check in on some of our data.

We always like to start here.

This is the dashboard that the Anchorage Coalition and Homelessness puts together, and they do these snapshots every month.

Um, this is from what's called the Built for Zero dashboard.

And I think it's important to understand that the purpose of that is to help us measure the flow through the system.

So as of this month, we have just under 3,000 people experiencing homelessness.

That's been kind of the range that we've been in for quite a long time.

There's a little bit of a difference in how they're presenting the information this month.

They're trying to kind of hone in on the language that makes the most sense for folks.

Uh so usually you would see about 1700 people in emergency shelter or transitional housing.

Um, this month they're just showing that those beds are all full.

And then they're showing about 600 people who are unsheltered.

And you can see from that double asterisk there, it says approximate count based on street outreach reports.

And so that I think is important to understand that the count of people who are unsheltered is we're trying to count a group of people that are moving and kind of coming in and out of shelter and hard to count.

Um, so that's always a bit of an approximation, but that's where we are currently.

I also wanted to just make sure that you knew that we have the 2025 data for what's called the point in time count.

This is a count that's done all over the country.

It's done one day in January every year.

So it's a good way for us to uh compare to previous years and to compare to other jurisdictions around the country.

Um, so what you'll see between 2024 and 2025, we just had a 2% change in our overall number, um, which means we're staying pretty steady.

Some other jurisdictions around the country are seeing pretty major increases.

So I think we're actually doing pretty good to be holding steady.

You'll see that our unsheltered count did go up a little bit uh by 56 people, which is a significant number when we're going from around 350 to 400 people.

Um we did see an increase in our emergency shelter beds, and then also an increase or sorry, um an increase in people who are in our year-round emergency shelter beds, but a slight decrease in those who are in our seasonal beds.

So just wanted to share that for this year.

Um, this one is what we call the um the housing inventory count.

And I'm just showing the part that counts on that day.

How many beds did we have, whether they were year-round shelters, seasonal shelter, transitional housing, or other types of supportive housing that are in that continuum.

And so you can see in that inventory column, we had about 2,818 of those beds or units.

And on the night when this was counted, about 92% of them were full.

So one of the things that that shows is that we could do better in terms of making sure every bed is full.

We'd love to see that at 100%, um, especially on a January night.

And so that's part of the reason that we're really investing in coordinating our services with our shelter providers.

So we're making sure that we really maximize all of the beds that we have.

And and before we move on, um, just a couple housekeeping things first.

Uh, for those on the phone and watching online, um, the presentation is now available on the website under work sessions.

We were joined uh by Chair Constant at 209, and we're now joined in the room by Mr.