Somehow, This is Still Anchorage

After decades of homelessness and public camping negatively impacting Anchorage residents and business owners, the problem has yet to be dealt with.
This film explores how and why homelessness in Anchorage is worse, as well as how changing legal decisions have impacted the city’s response.
In the summer of 2019, we produced "This is Anchorage," a film that explored the growing homelessness problem in Alaska's largest city. Two years later, we produced a follow-up film, “This is Still Anchorage,” which further explored the issue amid Covid and other challenges.
A big thanks to everyone who contributed to the making of this film and to all who participated in it.
If you enjoyed this film, please consider donating to the Landmine. We rely on donations and support to make films like this possible.

[@Alaska_Engineer]

My cousin lives in a homeless camp in a tent, he’s also a deranged criminal not safe for society. The problem isn’t homelessness… it’s drugs and mental health.

[@trailingupwards]

Your family is the problem, clearly.

[@TrevorWood-jn6pf]

I gu. Ess , the government thinks he's safe as long as he's living in the bushes😮😮😮😮

[@S14zenkiQs]

So you think the best way to deal with deranged criminals and drug addiction is to have them living in tents right in the middle of town instead of somewhere safe receiving the services they need?

[@David-er1ll]

There's alot of reasons that this sht is being tolerated n it's not just some nutsos flipping out it's a mutch deeper n mutch more ingrained than yalls spitting it's a society problem not a "Homeless" problem but it looks better for yalĺs 2 clean up yalls streets than ifn u decided to take on the true monster in this skit, dig ? But I care very little, I'm not nearly selfish enuf 4 procreation so after me dies it's not my fault any longer, yippee Ki Ya !!

[@windy5247]

WELL DONE!!!!! Unfortunate but real coverage of this situation has been needed and not left to "others". Yes, mental health and addiction are involved but as at least one person said, this is the way of life they have chosen. Thank you for honest coverage of this situation.

[@bao7lee]

Thanks for making a documentary about this. It’s so sad to see what Anchorage has turned into.

[@SS-hc6sp]

Understated point: Anchorage was not this way 20 years ago. It doesn’t have to be this way now. Intolerance for crime and antisocial behavior is something we need to recover.

[@BMartin-o5y]

I find your statement very uninformed. From 1984 until I could not physically continue, I was called to be a volunteer homeless and correctional chaplain. What I know is very much a catch-22 situation that is almost impossible to escape from without a great deal of the correct help that very few conscientious individuals seem to understand or want to implement.

[@SS-hc6sp]

Things were not this way 20 years ago. Now they are this way. That’s not uninformed, that’s reality. Yes, there are tough cases, but as this video demonstrates, the homeless are not a monolith. Homeless culture is very different now than in 1984 - wake up. Society has a role in encouraging responsibility and setting limits to behavior. Specific policy decisions and now-deprecated court decisions got us here and are the primary drivers of our present condition. Your work has value, but your wishful thinking (as if it would all be okay if we could only get a critical mass of conscientious volunteers) and narrow view of the nature and drivers of our homeless population is demonstratively harmful. That thinking is what took us down this slippery slope of impractical idealism. Our public parks are unsafe environments. The green belt is an ecological disaster zone and a gyre of abuse. It doesn’t have to be this way, and we know this because some of us remember a time when it absolutely was different, and it wasn’t all that long ago.

[@cherylschumaker1366]

They need to stop bringing in refugees and bussing them all over the place with a promise of money ..the ones coming in make our regular homeless seem like mellow sleepy Joe's...They brought so many to Alberta from BC and Vancover ...don't see too many in Suberbs in Onatrio or Monteral yet You do in the western provinces now NWT and Yukon ...also people eating up all the wildlife fisheries fowls hardly any wild rabbits in the parks or ducks Geese salmon are getting caught with nets busses full at a time...very sad can see lots of videos on it ..look up bc salmon and onatrio fisheries ...

[@explorewithbigd2855]

Here rent is $2000 a month for low-income housing you have to make 3 times that to get an apartment is it also acceptable that a person working a full-time job goes without basic necessity

[@deathperception8068]

Thank you for the doc. I live in Oregon. Destitute and non compliant people are everywhere. Everyone asks what the solution is. The answers to those problems at this point are not acceptable to the system we were born into that we are seeing crumble in real time. I have a son. All I can do is teach him what I know about survival and happiness while the world burns around us. Good luck to all of you.

[@brianbrady3455]

isolationism is not solution; 'discernment' yes, don't get involved. these current addicts will be gone in the future.

[@joeyjigliotti3948]

Thank you, Terry, for your care and efforts to help solve this problem.

[@YFZriderdude15]

This is an extraordinary film. Fantastic job 👍

[@77sabrina77]

It's so sad to see how things continue to spiral downward. Thank you for this eye opening documentary. Hopefully exposing the issues can lead to a solution.

[@deathperception8068]

It’s everywhere my friends. Something is broken. We were told as Americans we could live the dream. It has been exposed as a lie.

[@bessmay5353]

The dream is not a lie. First choice do no drugs, second choice read the Bible, 3rd choice do not buy into hedonism.

[@sailingaeolus]

@@bessmay5353 Do you believe this is the results of bad drugs like meth and fentanyl? Especially the synthetic stuff?

[@SS-hc6sp]

@@deathperception8068 something IS broken and it’s not the dream. It’s a crisis of competence in leadership, the deconstruction of social norms and cohesiveness, a fear of appearing to be an asshole by calling certain behavior wrong.

[@LocusFocus-t8d]

but when people see someone doing "cool" things they want to look "cool" too but actually aint, there time is right now drop the drugs and change for ever, or be dumb and have bullshit life for ever, even though they can change it long ass time ago, they just got there egos and greedness get to them 😂😂😂, sad but true

[@AKtoTok]

Shocked to see this on my feed, but glad someone is talking about it. It is widespread across the city now, crime, addiction, homelessness is on an all time high, mental health on an all time low.

[@michaelsiengo1]

Shit is everywhere. Kind of scary.

[@nathanielringdahl]

I was very tolerant of the homeless and their predicament for a long time. But not anymore. This spring I helped cleanup messes they left, it was an eye opening experience. The violence, filth, complete disregard for the public, the human shit everywhere, the ruined parks, that everyday people can no longer safely walk trails, send their kids down the street to play at the playground etc. It’s just awful. It isnt tolerant to be ok with this, it’s cruel to allow it to continue, for citizens and homeless alike.

[@brianbrady3455]

they are addicts

[@nathanielringdahl]

@@brianbrady3455 Yes

[@ajps12]

great work on this video. These people need to figure out their problems.

[@SimoneCunha-m6w]

Congratulations to Alaska Landmine. Please, make more documentary. I am so scared to be here.

[@AlyssaKocienda]

Thank you Jeff.

[@DoctorBillTheRadioMan]

I'm homeless and have been for the last 6 years. I travel the desert BLM Lands, every 2 weeks I break camp and move. I don't do drugs or alcohol at all and I am mentally stable. I am a nomad.

[@billping2633]

Big changes are coming in the next few years with the BLM. Not because of nomads like yourself but the ones that do drugs steal and trash the land. Areas that used to be free will start charging fees and others will be closed down completely. This has already started. Especially if they are close to town. I am seeing it first hand in AZ. We have one camping area just to the south and two to the north of town. There is a behind the scenes push to change them into pay areas like the LTVA at Quartzsite. The thought is to push the bad elements so far out in the desert with fees. To the point where they can't stay in the area at all because they are too far from supplies. It's not happening tomorrow but over the next 5 years it's likely

[@DoctorBillTheRadioMan]

@@billping2633 Yeah $600 for LTVA Quartzite. I have other plans.

[@jeffransom2977]

I love you beautiful people who care.

[@vonbose]

This is a documentary that I just didn't need. You see these people trashing the city every day.

[@Marlfox37]

Go to your room Von! No dessert!!!

[@brianbrady3455]

@@Marlfox37 "dessert' is on your lawn and your bike was stolen: Pink Floyd

[@craigmartin-r3z]

make no mistake this is about mental health and DRUGS. Alaska is huge, there is plenty of room and opportunity to go make a life for yourself.

[@trailingupwards]

Mind your own business.

[@craigmartin-r3z]

@@trailingupwards sure thing bud!

[@craigmartin-r3z]

And you’re sober right ?

[@craigmartin-r3z]

@@trailingupwards it is my business guy… you don’t know me!!

[@90klh]

@@craigmartin-r3z sooooo, these folks are just choosing to live this way?

[@lolsociety1407]

The production is great and I really appreciate you going out and filming and talking to people and giving a window into what is going on in these camps we all pass by on foot, bike, or car. It is a shame how biasedly the information is presented. The most glaring example is when you say 'after months of public frustration and public outreach the La France administration was forced to abate the Fairbanks Street encampment'. That is worded very deliberately when you know LaFrance had been in office for 29 days before choosing to abate that encampment. This video does not focus on solutions, it focused on fear and partisan politics. Honest bias is one thing but when you deliberately present facts in a misleading way you're making propaganda. When you're making propaganda, good production value just makes it more destructive. I hope you continue this documentary series and take unnecessary partisanship out both the blatant and the more frequent subtle hinting. I do agree with the sentiment that now that the assembly and the Mayor's office are predominately aligned on issues, there will be no excuse if they fail to improve this issue. The buck stops with La France and the assembly now. But making a video like this 2 months into the new political reality and twisting facts as if they've already failed is just reaching and showing your cards. I'm sure you're aware that this an extremely evergreen issue in Anchorage that's only become more visible and egregious. A decades long issue won't be fixed in two months. But if there is not significant undeniable progress made while one side controls the branches empowered to do something - they will have failed and should be voted out. I feel the same for the plowing. If it's just as bad this year as the last two, there will be no excuses. La France and the assembly have the power to improve things. If they failed to do so, I'll enjoy watching a well produced factual coverage of it and I'll be hoping this outlet has matured enough to be capable of doing that.

[@jefflandfield4097]

She won the run-off election in mid-May. She served two terms on the Assembly. She knew exactly what she was signing up for. She had well over a month for a transition. Her new homeless coordinator did not even start working until early August. There is zero sense of urgency from her administration, let alone doing what is necessary to fix this mess. Her, and her team's, repeated refusal to even talk to us for this film says it all.

[@shari9721]

Housing is just the first step , then there needs to be access help for mental health needs , medical health needs , addiction issues , educational needs , job skills , life skills etc .

[@sylvianederlander2317]

Thanks for your quality independent journalism! Shine the light!

[@ginaturek8268]

It's sad that Anchorage has turned to this. It wasn't this way 25 years ago. Certainly miss Alaska❤

[@scottg5588]

Good job, Jeff. Dave Bronson is such a class act. He could have said SO much more about Chrissy Constant and his assembly. Had they not blocked his navigation center this problem would not be near as bad as it is.

[@michaelsiengo1]

I have seen quite a few homeless problems throughout the US, and it always boils down to three things, easy access to drugs and alcohol…. And a ridiculous high cost rent….

[@brianbrady3455]

what's the third thing?

[@explorewithbigd2855]

You can't get a job and get off the streets,when a paycheck can't even cover rent,food,insurance, gas,electricity..

[@kjones5879]

In this case you are wrong. The majority doesn't want to get off the street. You don't see homeless; you see vagrancy. Then the ASSembly and Beans Cafe want to be mommy and daddy to them and NOT enable them. They could not even comply with simple rules at the red nose inn; no fighting or drinking. The majority does not want to live by rules. That is why they were kicked out of their villages, sent to Anchorage and told not to come back.

[@77sabrina77]

bidenomics and failed liberal policies in full effect

[@TomRevere-vz7vf]

Get a couple of roommates.

[@juliemunoz2762]

A job is for teenagers a career is for adults to earn a “living wage” mc donald’s, pumping gas, etc are not careers and if that’s all you’re willing to do, then be prepared to have roommates for life and not own anything of value.

[@explorewithbigd2855]

@@TomRevere-vz7vfI don't know how old you are but I have had my share of roommates... personally..I am not willing to work 12 hours a day to come home to roommates...lol

[@theuseriwantedwastaken]

I work in a nursing home and unfortunately have seen many residents come in that lived with serious demantia or medical conditions. Often times they were homeless veterans

[@kenblakeley9940]

My guess is winter will have the last say.

[@goshrx]

Lots of room at the Anchorage Baptist Temple casino.

[@TheNelsons907]

I LOVE the "Special No Thanks to Mayor Suzanne Lafrance" at 26:21

[@Zrytun]

Hasn't she only been mayor for a few months? What did Bronson do about it?

[@NuttyNu]

Much needed documentary

[@mccoyhomer3641]

That's bad it was not that bad twenty years ago when I was there😮

[@brianbrady3455]

because OxyContin drugs were still prescribed like bags of jellybeans back then

[@Desertvanlife]

Where do you put trash with no dumpsters? Where do you use the bathroom with no bathrooms? Where do you take a shower when there's no shower?

[@trailingupwards]

I live in Seattle, in an apartment, and I shit in the street when I'm downtown, because there are no bathrooms. If you want people to not shit in the street, you need to have bathrooms. I know this is hard to comprehend for most people, but it seems simple to me.

[@kjones5879]

When the dumpsters were put out, they still trashed the place. The majority of these people cannot live by simple societal norms.

[@userer4579]

@@trailingupwards Jeet behavior.

[@TomRevere-vz7vf]

Yes Let the taxpayers take on this burden too.

[@Eric-bh7jy]

Mandatory rehab, job training with no option to leave for at least 1-2 years.. it’s a waste of money to have shelters for majority of these people

[@shari9721]

Housing is just the first step , then there needs to be access help for mental health needs , medical health needs , addiction issues , educational needs , job skills , life skills etc .

[@pierremendicino]

This is by design-NW(dis)O’s at play….

[@jayc4562]

I was born in Anchorage. When I was in grade school, Chugach, my mother told me to stay out the woods south of 15th avenue. She said this was where the bums camped out. This was in the early 50's. I can tell you how they handled it in the 50's, but it isn't constitutional now.The problem really accelerated during the pipeline years in the 70's. The answer is the homeless have always been there. People just chose not to see them. Finland found a way to solve the problem, but it took the political will to do it.

[@Thefrugalgal]

How did Finland solve the problem?

[@ainokea4u]

Enlighten us as to what 'constitutional' thing they did in the 50's

[@shari9721]

Housing is just the first step , then there needs to be access help for mental health needs , medical health needs , addiction issues , educational needs , job skills , life skills etc .

[@Thefrugalgal]

@@shari9721 So basically society or the government is suppose to re- raise everyone.

[@Zrytun]

​@@Thefrugalgalactually yes because some of us didn't have parents that taught us how to live and school certainly didn't either.

[@TrevorWood-jn6pf]

Get these people following a pied. Piper to large homeless encampments, at least 50 miles from the nearest town and have it all inclucif. And let him have farming, let him raise some animals and try to turn these animals back into human beings. That we actually care about😢😢😢😢 Just. Think if we could have the compassion for these people as if they were a dirty puppy or a dirty kitten

[@ToddandAmandaWilliams-bm8mi]

You have a great heart my friend I as well have family on the street but they tell me they feel more at home and free living in tent I have helped so many but it got to the point where they were relying on me and I had to cut back because they are not gonna do anything for themselves if things are always handed to them so I had to cut back

[@ajf5823]

I can’t believe how much STUFF these homeless people have! 😱

[@Stephanie-lb6tt]

I’m for the underdog!❤

[@rccrawlingaddict207]

How many of you actually know what it's like to be FREE?

[@damienbell3155]

11:55 la France is one of the 4 on assembly that constantly denied the project to build a homeless shelter, the unit was stuck in Calgary canada for 2 plus yrs cause they denied the monies to pay for it to be shipped to anchorage. There was a plan and they originally agreed. Mid July when she took office they removed the homeless shelter from behind lowes on Tudor and the one at 15th Ave by C st. Also removed the one on hill by the government hill bridge. , but they’ve allowed the huge shelter by mt view across from the little league fields. Cannot be used they leave condoms , needles , and stool there. The assembly and Berkacraps ruined this city. Zack fields is a clown. He lives on the south side and doesn’t care what happens on other side of town. They’ve given themselves raises just passed another admitted to increase there health care to paid in full they only work 20 hours a week it’s not a full time job. Chris’s constants is an angry non American. He is a complete Buffon

[@userer4579]

Anchorage got the government it asked for and deserved.

[@damienbell3155]

@@userer4579 huh????? R u on crack ? Lol. It’s called no one is voting it’s only the unions state and city workers. All the people moving in are leftist. You better figure it out before it’s over

[@iceworm8566]

Yesterday I saw two busses stop in Spenard and offload people from Venezuela. They were not dressed properly for our weather. Its insane, they just stood there for a long time looking around wondering what to do.

[@userer4579]

@@iceworm8566 Pix? What made you think they were from Venezuela? Y'all better keep an eye on any vacant apartment buildings in the city.

[@iceworm8566]

@@userer4579 Our Governor released a public statement about how convicts are being pardoned and flown into America. Earlier this week, 6 banks were robbed by the same individual. He was released from a Cuban prison, first flown to Colorado and then onto Anchorage. Law enforcement has him in custody.

[@woodman1701]

It’s a pity they don’t provide some place far out of town that’s all camouflaged. Let them do what they want, but far away. Call it Freeland or something like that. Let them have their own forest or something. Chop down all the trees for a mile or two in a circle around it so if they start a fire it won’t spread. If people want to volunteer to help them then they can drive out there and do so. Provide a water tower and some electric perhaps. Sanitation could be a massive pit or something. Leave them be after that. They’d probably be happier for it.

[@Fred_Freddie]

Anchorage has turned liberal. Like all liberal cities, it turns to sht.

[@boris8301]

Vote the assembly and LaFrance out

[@bruceb9515]

Exactly! The far left Marxist Anchorage Assembly caused this. Fools keep voting them in. I don't go to Anchorage unless I have no option. Anchorage is a shit hole.

[@akbj2779]

So, it doesn't matter that extremely right wing Bronson has been mayor for the past several years?

[@marianfrances4959]

I live in a conservative city full of homeless people. The conservative government closed the mental health institutions in our province and tossed everyone out onto the street.

[@boris8301]

@@akbj2779 several years with a liberal assembly and for most of those years, Suzanne LaFrance as the head of the assembly. Now, Suzanna LaFrance has full control but with no progress in the city. No excuses

[@JR-of5hp]

How can they be smoking cigarettes?

[@ainokea4u]

Put it in your mouth and light it?

[@CoalNovah1285]

You would NOT believe how much government money they each get!

[@shari9721]

@@CoalNovah1285 How much do you think they get ? From where ?

[@77sabrina77]

Because either they panhandle or rob people to feed their addictions

[@teethmonkey]

Great video, Jeff. I’m glad it wasn’t a one-sided political attack so we can focus on the real solution.

[@thoddiver]

Soylent Green is people

[@timpekarek9159]

It rarely gets mentioned but social housing could be a part of a solution. I doubt that Alaska is spending enough money for housing solutions.

[@MJ011209]

The guy who wanders around to help says “these people are in a hopeless situation,” but that doesn’t address the ones who have a home or an apt but “want to be” in the streets are NOT hopeless!

[@shari9721]

Housing is just the first step , then there needs to be access help for mental health needs , medical health needs , addiction issues , educational needs , job skills , life skills etc .

[@mountainStyleBuilders]

What about the people that sell the alcohol and sell the drugs? are they not part of the problem?

[@mrhappy4521]

Snitch culture and drug dealers rule homeless camps

[@kjones5879]

So you are suggesting a babysitter for them?

[@gonemiam8636]

Alaska-ns have always thought they are immune to the lower 48s issues.

[@flobbertdobson1598]

Ya If you talk to em alot come from outta state. Prison transfers before release and summer workers rehab releases.....

[@Mr.Montalvo-0]

Complicated situation

[@jaytowne8016]

Ray Bradbury's "night people" are needed

[@Youtubesucks999]

Drinking Corona beer in bottles six packs In Anchorage. $ 12.00 ea. Where is the money coming from.

[@1GGBEE]

The state needs to stop making them cozy with free tents and sleeping bags! Because I’ve seen them handing them out!

[@TomRevere-vz7vf]

All the money given to these government programs . End up in somebody's pocket. As salary kickbacks or money laundering it does no good. Little of it actually goes to improving anything.

[@iceworm8566]

They have no intention of helping anyone but themselves, keeping the money for themselves. Yesterday I witnessed two bus loads of people dumped in Spenard from Venezuela. They were confused and lost. None of them had proper clothing.

[@ginaturek8268]

The bear scene is true. The devices have to be loud and it does sound like a gun

[@amycuaresma]

So what's your solution?

[@polarpress2734]

24:40 - No red head Karen there is No, I repeat 0% right to feel safe! I repeat, safe feelings, is NOT one of the 10 rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights.

[@ainokea4u]

She is the ultimate Karen

[@aseme798]

Homeless entitlement…exactly

[@tufneckdragon]

What do you think of our current mayor & her history of accomplishments/Fails?

[@ginaturek8268]

Watch documentary on Finland and how homelessness is treated there.

[@stevejackson3396]

How can there be a homeless problem in Anchorage when they definitely cannot be outside when winter rolls around?

[@juliemunoz2762]

People live igloos, you know a hut made out of ice. People can adapt to live anywhere on this planet without modern day convenience’s. apply that and a little common sense to the so called climate crisis, which is clearly a manufactured threat created for control.

[@catecalvertarriola3986]

Anchorage's housing shortage has nothing to do with the homeless ppls drug and alcohol abuses. The addiction to substances created many of the homeless populations homelessness. You can't work and be an addict, or take care of yourself and your children. Take care of the addiction and mental health problems first and then address jobs and affordable housing.

[@alant5757]

LaFrance… on her website says…” from a real plan on homelessness”. Well, will see after a few years. But by who endorsed her… probably not. And the tax payers pay for the parks yet… can’t use them because “some” people decide to live in those parks. Also, just like Hawaii…. Some people move to Alaska for work or family and then end up using drugs or alcohol… and because there is another country between Alaska and the mainland… they can’t leave.

[@explorewithbigd2855]

Rent where I live can't be covered with a paycheck...

[@kjones5879]

They don't want to live where there are rules. They could not do it in their villages. It's not about covering the cost of rent for 99% of them. Yes. Help the one or two people who will dedicate themselves to working toward a better life. That is what we should do; help but not take care of.

[@srugel44]

Remember when they wiped out the people who had the skills to live in nature?

[@billping2633]

Stop feeling sorry for these people. Its not about losing their tents that bs. They don't want to stop doing drugs.

[@Chromatic145]

Ban alcohol.

[@needmoreramsay]

Truedope: "We'd like to buy Alaska !" Biden: "Take, it's yours (again)". 😂😂

[@boris8301]

Somehow, homelessness has gotten worst under Suzanne LaFrance. I want Bronson back

[@akjeff64]

There's a difference between homeless and drug addicts/alcoholics..Anchorage is full of the latter

[@jaytowne8016]

La France looks a lot like Jacinda Ardurn.

[@iceworm8566]

Thank you for sharing this video. Mary Peltola is in the process of setting up a program for Alaskan residents to donate their permanent fund dividend check to fly citizens of other countries to Alaska, so they can become immigrants.

[@iceworm8566]

@AkBob-v6d Sad. using these people for political gain.

[@flobbertdobson1598]

Pipe slap. Works on bears.

[@normally13690]

If you pick them up and move them what then ?

[@ajf5823]

Gotta build camps

[@explorewithbigd2855]

So set aside some land near or in the city..Your Alaska last of the frontier for fk sake.!

[@kjones5879]

You don't know what you are talking about and you are attempting to make it such a simple solution. The majority do not want to comply with ANY societal norms. These are vagrants; not homeless. You will find very few wanting to comply with rules like no drinking or fighting. Why do you think they were kicked out of their villages?

[@nathan8418]

​@@kjones5879You could always go back to whatever country you came from

[@briancantwell5107]

These folks need suitcases must be a long winter on the street

[@bryancherry9253]

Hospice Anchorage. Like Portland.

[@thomasjones1778]

wat til winter.

[@catecalvertarriola3986]

Let's go after the relators and banks for helping to drive up the high cost of ppls' ability to buy a house.

[@dantheman5201]

The Democrat solution is ban camping in city parks and make it someone else's problem because the monies are for lavish salaries not for homeless people.

[@VictorPizzola]

Homelessness is non-existent. Ha! Now its unhoused. Solved.

[@cherylschumaker1366]

If they love the wolderness and nature so much why dont the go up into the deep wilderness and surive like whst they want to live ..South Amercians need to stay in S amercia or come in the right way...

[@amycuaresma]

1:39. You can't walk to 'Any' city parks ? Really ..... Not one? that comment is a little extreme. I can send you a list of several parks that you can go to.

[@someguy-wm4lj]

Even if all the homeless were all in one park, it would still be a huge problem. At the rate we are going, it won't be long until they are in every park. Nowhere will be safe. You are part of the problem. Anyone who dismisses this is complicit. It's idiots like you that are making Anchorage unlivable.

[@90klh]

I have a feeling this is more propaganda, some. "ohh look at the poor people their commin for ya" porn. It makes people who don't realize that their not too far away from being JUST like one of these people can sit back and feel better about it. Then, we can all think "I'm not like that, why do we need social security, or food stamps anyway?! It's just enabling the impoverished drug addicts choosing to live this way!"

[@chrisschneider4226]

I would be ok with these documentaries getting some public funding.

[@BMartin-o5y]

I find the statement that “It wasn’t like this 20 years ago” very uninformed. From 1984 until I could not physically continue, I was called to be a volunteer homeless and correctional chaplain. What I know is very much a catch-22 situation that is almost impossible to escape from without a great deal of the correct help that very few conscientious individuals seem to understand or want to implement. For a few years, before we were forced to stop, my children and I opened our home for those few who needed and wanted assistance with a hand up instead of just a hand out that almost always ended up for drugs and or cheapest alcohol available.

[@explorewithbigd2855]

Let alone anything else.

[@flobbertdobson1598]

Good representation. But there's soooo much more.

[@FATBOYSLIM79]

They need my rehabilitation trade school there Opportunity kills poverty

[@kjones5879]

Most don't want that. It requires a level of commitment they are not willing to work for.

[@hans5130]

So if you heard a gunshot could it be a rabbit hunter.

[@MJ011209]

Your tax dollars aren’t going to help when the city is now under dim party control.

[@David-er1ll]

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO ?!?

[@Bluriderz]

So sad to see americans like this and all the illegal immigrant gets so much support and money and our homelessness rise to the top. vote for Trump/Vance 2024 if you love America.

[@MrDOLPHINFLOGGER]

I'm jelly, I was homeless camping during early 90s partying instead of paying rent, and it wasn't as easy as these woke enabling times. It's too easy to now, no reason to work or change. Too much of the easy life. No jail time or consequences. Phff. Jolly

[@Ooglebooty]

Bullshit I was homeless up until two years ago, you know nothing about being homeless or what it’s like

[@90klh]

Sure it's their fault. Obviously you were too lazy to work so that must apply to all these people.

[@lolsociety1407]

"Woke enabling times" ? Also, lol at calling living outside in the subarctic "the easy life." Listen to yourself.

[@AlaskaMatt]

This is exactly what the voting group of Anchorage wanted. I have seen this city go downhill. Its interesting how they keep voting in worse and worse mayors and local leaders. But its the liberal dream to publicly accept everyone but than complain about it but not be able to have a solution to fix it. Very sad to see.

[@Itsallillusional]

People can't afford rents it's not that difficult to understand

[@CaptainHi-Top-w5q]

Ghetto Wonderful Just Add Drugs. My Finger is on The Trigger.

[@explorewithbigd2855]

Your policies can't change that.

[@richardmann2687]

DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED WEST VOASTS| STATES/CITIES?

[@utrinqueparatusman]

Waste of space!

[@CoalNovah1285]

Maybe 🤔 just maybe 🤔 the homeless problem wouldn’t be so bad as it is now if the Anchorage Assembly members would not have flown in homeless from the lower 48 to fill the assembly’s vacant buildings to get federal funding. I work in Anchorage and with in the last 4 years the population has drastically increased!!!

[@userer4579]

"Anchorage Assembly members [flew] in homeless from the lower 48 to fill the assembly’s vacant buildings to get federal funding." Can you verify that this happened? I'm not saying you are wrong, just interested in the source.

[@iceworm8566]

@@userer4579 Yes. Biden-Harris administration setup a program called, CHNV Program. It gives a total pardon for convicts serving prison sentences in the following countries, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela. They are given plane tickets to fly to America. Dunleavy and other governors launched investigations into this matter.

[@flobbertdobson1598]

The ancorage mu i had clean up crews that scheduald garbage clean up without harassing the homless. Do they still?