Homeless camp thrives in heart of Downtown Anchorage among tourists, businesses:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A homeless camp has been growing in Downtown Anchorage on the hillside along West 2nd Avenue near E Street, putting the city’s homelessness crisis on full display to tourists.
EasyPark Alaska, which enforces parking in the Municipality, owns and leases a mixture of land across Downtown. A glance at the hillside where the tents are strewn is in an area owned by the Alaska Department of Transportation and the Alaska Railroad. Multiple staff members of EasyPark said the area around where the tents are pitched is currently clear because they’ve had the backing from the Anchorage Police Department when asking people to leave.
On Friday, an Anchorage Police Officer helped a woman carry a table across Second Avenue from the homeless camp on the hill. She said that she had to leave that day — although Alexis Johnson, the Municipality’s Housing and Homeless coordinator, said that those living on the hill cannot be abated and that to her knowledge, no one had been abated from the camp. Multiple city workers and law enforcement officers were seen tiding the camp on Friday, with tents pushed to one side of the hill.
Multiple people we reached out to while doing the story, including a person living in the camp, said that the camp had negative optics for tourism. The city’s tourism organization Visit Anchorage released a statement on Friday.
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