S3:E1 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Solving Homelessness is a Hard Thing To Do

S3:E1 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Solving Homelessness is a Hard Thing To Do

A pope, a mayor, and an archbishop walk into a podcast. That sounds like the set up for a joke. It’s not. However, in this episode you find out what a Pope, a mayor, and an Arch Bishop – not to mention a rose garden and the mythical beast the Hydra - have to have to do with homelessness in Anchorage.

Join us as we start Season 3 of the AnchorEd City Podcast: The Hydra of Homelessness.

For a good primer on the recent history of homelessness response in the Anchorage check out:

 

ADN Politics podcast: “The past, present and future of Anchorage homelessness - What happened, why and what’s next in Anchorage’s ongoing and changing homelessness crisis.” https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/08/26/adn-politics-podcast-the-past-present-and-future-of-anchorage-homelessness/

 

Resources used to make this episode:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/

 

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/02/26/remembering-alaskas-visit-from-the-pope-40-years-later/

 

RUNAWAY TEENS FIND SHELTER AT COVENANT

By Larry Campbell - November 2, 1988 

Anchorage Daily News (AK)  - Page: B1 

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F78DCC2CFF26855?search_terms

 

Covenant House Will Offer Care and Love for Our Youth In Need

By Robert B. Flint – May 30, 1988

Anchorage Daily News (AK) – Page: B7

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-179A4D2269D3C5FB@2447312-179A4BE422F65907@16-179A4BE422F65907@?search_terms

 

A Home of Last Resort

By Mitch Lipka – March 31, 1987

Anchorage Times – Page: D1

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16C02882AAA45086@2446886-16C0274CA3F2A38D@30-16C0274CA3F2A38D@?search_terms

 

https://www.facebook.com/bronsonformayor/photos/pb.100069243578372.-2207520000../268953178267434/?type=3

 

Rosenheck, R., 1994. Homelessness in America. American journal of public health, 84(12), pp.1885-1886.

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.84.12.1885

 

Christensen, J., Arnfjord, S., Carraher, S. and Hedwig, T., 2017. “Homelessness across Alaska, the Canadian North and Greenland: A review of the literature on a developing social phenomenon in the Circumpolar North”. Arctic, 70(4), pp.349-364.https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4680

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/humanitarian

 

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2022/06/17/opinion-moving-forward-on-anchorage-homelessness-solutions/

 

https://alaskalandmine.podbean.com/e/alexis-johnson-and-corey-allen-young-episode-252/

 

https://twitter.com/EastAncBookClub