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Ten Year Plan on Homelessness In ten years, the homeless of Anchorage will be connected with a way to secure safe and affordable housing within three months of identification by any homeless services provider Mayor's Task Force on Homelessness In 2004, Mayor Begich brought together a 24-member group, know as the Mayor’s Task Force on Homelessness, to develop a plan for how Anchorage could address the issue of homelessness by the year 2015.   The Task Force was a subcommittee of the Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND) Commission.  The membership on the Task Force included homeless and formerly homeless people, representative from nonprofit agencies, public safety personnel, businesses, the school district, government officials, and charitable foundations.  The member’s roster may be downloaded here in PDF.  Input to the Task Force was given by homelessness experts in the Anchorage community and comments from interested members of the public.  The efforts of the Task Force mirrored a national movement of a growing number of U.S. cities developing 10-Year Plans to end homelessness.  This objective was a priority of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which Mayor Begich attended in January of 2004.  A Ten-Year Plan was developed by this group that contained over 200 community action steps that are to be accomplished in one, three, and five year increments.  10-Year Plan Implementation The final plan which is strongly supported by the Mayor, was endorsed by the Housing and Neighborhood Development Commission on November 10, 2004, and was adopted as a Municipal ordinance by the Anchorage Assembly on January 11, 2005 today is overseen by the Anchorage Coalition on Homelessness Executive Oversight Board.   Various members of the community are responsible for action steps in the Plan.  The Executive Oversight Board coordinates the Plan’s action steps and efforts.  If you would like to provide comments or information to the Executive Oversight Board please email O'NeillCL@muni.org.  All relevant emails will be provided to the Executive Oversight Board members monthly. The Plan