More than 50 people have died outdoors in Anchorage since 2017.
Joyce Fredericks, 64, was found dead in the woods along the New Seward Highway near Northern Lights Boulevard on June 26, 2020. Photographed on August 24, 2020.
“We don’t have a box to check that says ’homeless,’ ” said Clint Farr, the state’s chief of health analytics and vital records. The data out of Sacramento also revealed that only 25% of homeless deaths occur in winter, shattering a myth that most deaths happened during cold weather and prompting a change in how emergency shelter funding was allocated, Erlenbusch said.
Some Anchorage residents are obviously homeless. They panhandle, live in tents along greenbelts or stay at shelters. Some people experiencing homelessness are harder to spot. They may work minimum wage jobs and rent a room for a few nights at low-budget motels like the Black Angus Inn or the Mush Inn. Or they double up with a friend, or live in an RV or car.
From social media accounts, news articles, address searches and contacts with family members, many of the people who died outdoors in Anchorage appear to have been homeless. But again, with no one tracking it, it’s hard to say for certain. The body of Joe Mukluk, 80, turned up nine days earlier. On the morning of Aug. 16, police responded to a call from the 500 block of West Fourth Avenue downtown, where Mukluk was found lying outside on a staircase. Whoever found him started CPR until officers arrived and took over. He was declared dead at the scene.
On Valentine’s Day, police found Mary Tom, 68, lying in a snowbank outside the Anchorage jail. Tom had not been homeless for 10 years although many people thought she was, said Annie Patrick-Tom, her daughter-in-law. Tom lived in Mountain View with her longtime partner and was on her way to visit her grandchildren with gifts when she died.
Sexual assault against homeless women is common. Around 80% to 90% of the women who seek homeless services in Anchorage report being survivors of sexual assault, said Lisa Sauder, executive director of Bean’s Cafe. Aquino said she has pushed unsuccessfully for outdoor death statistics to be available so the city and providers can measure how well they are doing, or not, in solving Anchorage’s homeless problem.
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