Leaders asked for the department to review the funding formula that allocates federal dollars for homelessness, and floated a potential task force focused on rural housing costs.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge addresses the media following a roundtable discussion about housing and homelessness on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 at Covenant House in Anchorage.
“Every person in that room today ... understands that there is an urgency to the homelessness situation in this country, and particularly in this state and in this city,” Fudge said during a brief press availability after the event. , a municipality like Anchorage gets relatively little money to deal with homelessness compared to much larger cities like Indianapolis or Baltimore, even though it tallies a similarly sized unhoused population.requesting help from Fudge and Alaska’s congressional delegation to reassess how HUD allocates federal dollars, in order to potentially “repair a fundamental inequity in the funding formula system that has left the Municipality of Anchorage in a crisis.
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