City and outreach workers aren’t telling displaced campers where to go. There isn’t enough shelter space, and there are no sanctioned camping sites.
An Anchorage Parks and Recreation employee holds up a camp abatement notice for Breanna Witzke to photograph near Cuddy Family Midtown Park on May 24, 2023. The crew posted the notices all around the park, the Loussac Library and a vacant lot where dozens of tents are pitched.
The abatement targets a public space that’s hosting a big outdoor music festival next month. Right now, it’s home to dozens of people living in tents. Volunteers and nonprofits come weekly with hot meals, medical help and service referrals. The number of encampments here, and at other public spaces around Anchorage have been growing since the city shut down its cold-weather shelters on May 1.
His said his crews will work with police to move people out and clean up what’s left behind, though he said most people leave willingly. The process will be gradual, wrapping up on June 15.
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