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Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC)

Rental Repairs Facebook Live Event on Friday, October 15th at 12 PM
This live event discusses tenant rights, responsibilities, and available resources now that the CDC eviction moratorium has ended.

What if a landlord refuses to repair a home? Should they withhold rent? Can the tenant break their lease? Should they make the fixes themselves?

ALSC's Housing team will be answering these and other questions at the Rental Repairs Facebook Live Event on Friday, October 15th at Noon.

View e vent details here

ACEH Updates

The Anchorage Coalition to End Homlessness (ACEH) works with allies in the community to design, create, and lead implementation for the Anchorage community plan on homelessness.
More about ACEH

Coordinated Entry & Shelter

Family Emergency Shelter
Families that are unsheltered are encouraged to call 2-1-1. From there they will be given a referral to either Safe Harbor or Clare House depending on current vacancies. If no vacancies are available the family will get a referral to the Aviator or Aspen Hotel. This is a temporary solution to help families in need.

Case Conferencing and Coordinated Entry (CE) Training
If you have any questions, or are interested in coordinated entry access point training for you or your team, please contact Mac Lyons at: [email protected]

Outreach & Resources

There will be no vaccination or testing clinics this week with VISIT Healthcare due to scheduling issues. However, the Providence Hospital Community Health Workers will be joining outreach this Friday to assist unsheltered clients with Medicaid and Food Stamp Applications, as well as offer medical attention and minor cut and wound treatment.

On Tuesday, October 12^th, we will be hosting a Single Adults Case Conferencing meeting where providers can discuss resources and potential avenues of assistance for clients with unique barriers, as well as discuss best outreach practices for any clients that have received a recent referral.

Please be advised that there will be no outreach on Monday, October 18^th in observance of Alaska Day!

Reminder: The next Outreach Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 20^th at 10 AM.

Local Housing & Homelessness Highlights

Inspiring stories from the Anchorage community, news and information about housing and homelessness, and tangible ways you can get involved and help people in need. View ACEH Members

Partner Wish Lists:

Bean's Cafe & Children's Lunchbox
Children's Winter Clothing Drive
Bedding for Clare House

R each out if you would like us to share your organization's wish list!

Alaska Public Media

Native nonprofit publishes language glossary in English, Inupiaq, Yup’ik

Bering Strait regional nonprofit Kawerak has published a new language glossary that provides research, science, policy and resource management terms in English, Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Yup’ik.

View full article here

Covenant House Alaska

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

"In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Covenant House Alaska ambassadors, Jacquii with a Cue from Kotzebue. We have asked her to share her perspective on Indigenous Peoples' day because we believe fully in using our platform to spark conversation and spread awareness around our mission to ending youth homelessness. As a fact, more than half the youth at Covenant House Alaska are Alaskan Natives, and it is our duty and honor to shed light on the rich history of Alaska." - via Jessica Bowers, Covenant House Alaska

View Jacquii Cue's story here: Jacquii with a Cue on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

National Housing & Homelessness Highlights

National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH)

Providing Immediate and Flexible Crisis Options for Children and Families
The Framework for an Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response partners have released a new guide and videos focused on Immediate and Flexible Crisis Options for Children and Families that can be replicated, adapted, and scaled up or down as needs and/or scale of resources change in each community, with the goal that no child ever sleeps outside.

View resources here

Deadline Extended for Child Tax Credit Applications
The filing deadline for families to apply for the Child Tax Credit is November 15 using the new GetCTC tool, made in collaboration with the White House and the Department of the Treasury.
Families may apply for the Child Tax Credit – as well as Economic Impact Payments and the Earned Income Tax Credit – through the IRS Non-filer Sign Up Tool. Please note that this resource is available until October 15.

Apply for the Child Tax Credit here

National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

Interim Final Rule Requires Public Housing and PBRA Tenants to Receive ERA Information in 30-Day Eviction Notices
HUD published an interim final rule in the Federal Register on October 7 that applies when there is a national emergency such as the current pandemic and when federal funding is available to assist tenants in public housing and properties with project-based rental assistance (PBRA) who are facing eviction for nonpayment of rent. The interim final rule will allow HUD to require providers of public and PBRA housing to give tenants facing eviction for nonpayment of rent at least 30 days’ notice before a tenant must vacate a unit. That notice must give tenants information about the availability of federal emergency funding intended to prevent evictions. In addition, PHAs must provide all public housing tenants information about the availability of federal emergency rental assistance. HUD will publish notices providing details about the content of required tenant notifications. Comments are due by November 8, the day the interim final rule takes effect.

View full memo here

U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH)

Guidance and Webinar: Re-Housing Individuals Experiencing Homelessness From COVID-Specific Non-Congregate Shelter

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published joint guidance in September 2021 about strategies for transitioning people out of non-congregate shelter (NCS) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and into safe, stable permanent housing.

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) hosted a webinar with HUD's Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) and FEMA's Public Assistance (PA) Division to discuss the guidance.

View full article here

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