Mayor Sullivan: Anchorage Must “Break The Cycle” of Homelessness

Anchorage mayor says the “aggressive” combination of evicting homeless campers from public spaces, the crackdown on panhandling and strict ID policy for buying alcohol is necessary to address homeless.

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Story Created: Jun 9, 2011 at 5:03 PM AKDT

Story Updated: Aug 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM AKDT

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Les said on Thursday, Jun 9 at 10:51 PM

The right to give to whom i want my money is my choice.The Agressive actions,as they are called are pittyful and the only thing this dose is Hide the Homeless,doesnt break any cycle of anything.Except the cycle of compassion.oh wait politcs and compassion.What was i thinking .We should think of these qualities before voting ,dont you think.

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Shaun said on Friday, Jun 10 at 8:49 AM

I work at a package liquor store and i have been telling people that the new law about showing ID to buy alcohol has nothing to do with red stripe ID's. I have maintained it is about the homeless (mostly native) population many of whom have ID's that expired a long time ago or have no ID at all. Why is it that the rich white men get to make all the rules? When are we going to get a government that reflects the diverse population in alaska?

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viewer1 said on Friday, Jun 10 at 8:50 AM

this does nothing except give the goverment more controll, if the homeless has a strip on thier "ID", they will just have someont that doesn't have one buy it for them. we are not stupid. call it what it is..

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viewer1 said on Friday, Jun 10 at 8:51 AM

Sullivan is a moron

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bjodomin said on Saturday, Jun 11 at 8:41 AM

Ya-hoo! Perhaps someone should take the money which was spent to keep our law makers in session longer and do something about the growing number of home-less here in Alaska.

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bjodomin said on Saturday, Jun 11 at 8:44 AM

Or use the 715,000 given to Anchorage to fix the trails / parking problems at Flat Top...

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mcgillagorilla said on Tuesday, Jun 14 at 10:45 AM

all people caught panhandling or homeless buy them a one way trip to miami florida and let them live in the sun and surf.

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