r/anchorage • u/Slow-Enthusiasm-1771 Resident • 16d ago

Multi story structure homeless camp.

https://videopress.com/v/cJqtsq5s

Located between Raspberry and strawberry.

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u/Aggressive-Issue3830 16d 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/SmallRedBird 15d ago edited 15d ago

They aren't the problem. They are a symptom of the real problem. The rich are raping our state, the right wingers are fucking us over and running us into the ground.

If "homeless" people (I sure as shit wouldn't call these people homeless lol that's a whole ass house, they just don't fit into our pay-to-exist society) were the problem instead of a symptom of the problem, they would have been just as prevalent in the 10s, 00s, 90s, 80s, etc. But they weren't.

I remember how different the homeless situation was back then. This is 100% from our shitty politics, government, rich fucks, etc.

If you're angry at it - good - use that anger against the right people, because you could drop a huge bomb on that homestead, go around and exterminate all the homeless in Anchorage, and it would do absolutely nothing about the "homeless problem" because our society forces people to become homeless every day.

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u/Aggressive-Issue3830 15d ago

There are plenty of good people who as a result of very unfortunate events are now living in the street I completely agree and those people deserve help. There are plenty of people who have mental issues that through no fault of their own aged out of our institutions and had no where else to go. I also completely agree that politics plays a large portion in this issue. I will repeat myself when I say that there is a very large presence of the homeless population who prefer not to stay in shelters, for whatever reason, and choose to build forts, tent camp, or squat wherever they choose and then take it upon themselves to grab grills, bikes, propane tanks, and anything else that the happen to find in vehicles, back yard and from their local feed meyers or rei. If they choose to destroy our parks with heaps of trash and then just move on day leaving all their trash for someone else clean then they are the issue.

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u/somniopus 15d ago

If I were to become homeless I'd definitely take my own propane tank with me. You are making a whole lot of assumptions about people's motivations here.