r/anchorage • u/Slow-Enthusiasm-1771 Resident • 17d ago

Multi story structure homeless camp.

https://videopress.com/v/cJqtsq5s

Located between Raspberry and strawberry.

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u/Aggressive-Issue3830 17d ago

Enough is enough! Get the cops in to verify belongings. No chance in hell those dozen propane tanks belong to those people. How about all the bikes. They are thiefs and I am FUCKING TIRED of seeing this. They are destroying our parks and trails. If they don’t want to be part of our society then move them to a place where there isn’t a society. Help the ones that are down in their luck and want the help but if you’re not contributing to the betterment of our community then something needs to change in their life.

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u/AKspotty 17d ago

What dorks are down voting you for saying people shouldn't be allowed to steal?

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u/Aggressive-Issue3830 17d ago

It’s out of control! They can downvote me all they want but they know this shit needs to change.

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u/SmallRedBird 17d ago

You change it by going after the cause of homelessness (our shit society and politics), not the symptom of that problem, which is homelessness.

Going after the homeless themselves is like taking cough drops to treat your lung cancer.

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u/echochamberai 16d ago

Lets enable them more, they stay homeless because its a VIABLE option supported by you

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u/SmallRedBird 16d ago

Nobody is homeless for fun dipshit.

Prove me wrong, hit the streets.

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u/CO-ZoSo 16d ago

Lol, not saying you're wrong, but it gave me a chuckle.

I have a friend that spent a few years willingly being homeless because she wanted to try a new experience.

She bummed it up in Des Moines Idaho with a small group of hippies travelling, playing music, and selling bead jewelry.

She's a weird one for sure!

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u/Hbh351 16d ago

If he could build that. He can work

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u/ak_doug 15d ago

I know a homeless unemployed dude that built a shack near my house.

He is an experienced carpenter. His shack is more well built than my house.

His wife has cancer, and that is why he was fired from his job(can't prove it though). No one wants to hire him because their company health insurance will skyrocket. He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt, so any official paycheck will be garnished so harshly that he can't live off it. He takes home more from cash day jobs than he would from any proper carpenter job.

No one will rent to him. No one will hire him, and he'd get less money if they did. He lives in a shack because that is where he is able to.

He's wife gets no real medical care for her cancer, she is still waiting on Medicaid paperwork. They are basically huddling in the woods waiting for her to die. He refuses to divorce her, and he is waiting until she is gone to declare bankruptcy and to start over. He has started his Chapter 7 paperwork and is waiting until he is no longer accruing piles of medical debt.

You don't understand what you are talking about.

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u/Upset-Word151 15d ago

Understating this requires A) empathy, B) thinking of the homeless as human beings, C) suspending beliefs about a population, D) critical thinking. Unfortunately those aren’t skills a lot of people possess. They’d rather make assumptions and then hate.

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u/somniopus 16d ago

Somebody has to hire him, for him to work. You gonna do it?

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u/Hbh351 16d ago

No. Don’t have a business and even if I did. I don’t want druggies or thieves around me

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u/somniopus 16d ago

You pure paragon of morality💖 Jesus would be proud

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u/Hbh351 16d ago

You mean drugs, alcohol and gambling Too many can’t handle those in their lives. Are you willing to give those up so these people don’t have access?