Anchorage police and municipal workers are set to clear out two of the city’s largest homeless camps next month, as notices went up Friday in Mountain View’s Davis Park and the nearby snow dump.
That’s under a mandate from Mayor Suzanne LaFrance, who says the camps have negatively affected the wellbeing of the surrounding neighborhood, reduced residents’ access to public spaces and increased risk for the nearby military base. The mayor’s office says it’s also an unsafe environment for people living in the camp.
People have been living in the two camps for years, but extra federal money makes the timing right to clear them now, said Farina Brown, special assistant to Mayor LaFrance on homelessness and health…