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.

“The state will be the lead on moving the individuals who have been evacuated into housing options of their choice,” she said. “What we’ve been doing is to try and support that effort by identifying every resource we can.”

More than 650 people were brought

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