All right, good morning, folks.

We're gonna go ahead and call this meeting of the Assembly Housing and Homelessness Committee to order.

We'll start with uh introductions in the room with uh with assembly members.

Anna Brawley.

Shared Gerger, Cameron Perez Radio.

And on the phone, do we have Ms.

Baldwin Day?

We have been having uh phone connection issues.

So if you are there, just uh shoot me a text or give me a thumbs up.

Um we'll go ahead and get started.

Uh we're gonna get started today with a presentation on the enforcement and outcomes associated with AO 2026 74 S2.

So if you're here to uh present on that, why don't you come on up?

Yes.

And for the record, please introduce yourselves, begin whenever you're ready, and members feel free to uh wave me down or text me if you'd like to get the queue.

Uh good morning, everyone.

I'm Thea Agnew Benben, special assistant to Mayor La France.

Um, true to form, we have a multi-presenter presentation for you today.

Our main goal is to provide you an update on the implementation of our camping ordinance that was passed um a little over a year ago today, or this you know, this month.

Um, but what we'd like to do is give you also information about all of the other things that we're doing around addressing unsheltered homelessness, and then we'll kind of um build into the specific data around the camping ordinance.

Um so I'll get us started.

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So again, you know, as we say probably every time we're here, we're continuing to implement two strategies that were developed at the beginning of the mayor's term.

Um, one is focused on homelessness and health, the other is focused on uh community safety here in Anchorage, and they have a set of interlocking goals.

Um, today we're primarily interested in talking about our goal around having fewer people sleeping outside, but that's also to accomplish that includes the other ones.

So we have to have a year-round safety net, uh better crisis care, better and more appropriate housing.

Um, our public safety workforce needs to be robust.

We're trying to reduce crime and increase accountability.

And then, of course, we want our roads and parks and trails to be safe for everyone, which involves having a lot of good partners and funding from other locate from other sources and also sharing data back with you all and the community.

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So, one of our main approaches uh to address unsheltered homelessness and people who would otherwise be sleeping outside and in some of our uh public spaces is a real effort around coordinated outreach, crisis response, and making real-time connections.

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Now on slide four.

We have updated this graphic that you have seen multiple times, and you now are seeing the updated version that has uh data that reflects our most recent housing inventory count.

That is something that happens at the same time as our point and time count.

So once a year.

So the point in time count is a good measure of demand, and then the housing inventory count is a good measure of our supply.

And so we've updated the numbers on this sheet to provide you that information.

At the very top here is again really our primary point of contact with people who are unsheltered or who are outside.

So we have, as you know, really developed a multidisciplinary outreach team around our HOPE team.

We still have mobile crisis response, both at the fire department and the police department.

And we have added mobile peer outreach.

So that's very exciting.

We are making a lot of direct connections into treatment, which is a huge part of our approach.

And on the back page, back of this diagram, which I can hand out.

Sorry, didn't actually get this printed earlier.

You have the full count of our sort of safety net inventory.

So I think people aren't always aware of how many beds we have.

And this is across our whole municipality.

So this is not just the ones that municipality funds.

It's also includes all of our uh beds of different types that are serving people experiencing homelessness.

So about 42% of those are emergency shelter beds or just over a thousand beds.

Um about 10% are transitional housing, 235 beds.

Uh another 260 beds are rapid rehousing.

And then the remainder, so about 37% are permanent supportive housing and other permanent housing.

So really, when you look at that, you know, kind of around 40% are for people who are needing something that night and needing a very emergency shelter response.

And almost another 40% are for when we hopefully can exit people from that situation into a more type of permanent housing.

And then the other diagram on the slide, it's really just showing you our crisis response model, which follows a national uh model called crisis now.

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This is all of our different types of mobile outreach and crisis response, um, both for people who are unsheltered and experiencing homelessness, but also just for people who are experiencing crisis wherever they are in the communities.

So you know from some of our other presentations that between 50 and 90 percent or sorry, 50 and 70 percent of the people that our mobile teams go to are housed.