First City Homeless Services Archives

Ketchikan City Council cuts back hours at town’s emergency shelter

by Angela Denning, CoastAlaska | Sep 13, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0

The Ketchikan City Council has voted to cut hours at the town’s only 24-7 emergency shelter due to safety concerns from neighbors. The city’s annual lease for the shelter, First City Haven, expired in May and has since been month-to-month. The new lease allows 22 hours of operation per day for the first six months. For the second six months, the shelter would be opened only at night.

Ketchikan warming shelter opens for winter at newly-outfitted Park Avenue location

by Eric Stone | Dec 14, 2020 | Local News | 0

At one point, it was a warehouse for the city’s water department. Then a youth-focused nonprofit took it over to use as a community center. And now, it’s providing dry, warm beds for Ketchikan’s homeless population.

The City of Ketchikan transferred an old warehouse to a nonprofit in 2009. Now, it’s considering taking it back

by Eric Stone | Sep 2, 2020 | Local News, Syndicated | 0

Ketchikan’s City Council will consider whether to repossess the Park Avenue property currently owned by Ketchikan Youth Initiatives to house an overnight shelter for residents without homes.