Officials have identified more than 1,000 available hotel rooms plus additional rental options in Alaska's largest city for the hundreds of people displaced to Anchorage after the remnants of a typhoon ravaged their villages earlier this month.
Becky Windt Pearson, Anchorage's municipal manager, told a news conference Tuesday that leaders are working to expedite moving people from two large shelters in the city to more private accommodations in line with the aims of a state-led task force formed to address housing needs for evacuees.
