Three Anchorage Assembly members are proposing to criminalize camping on public land. Assembly member Keith McCormick is one of the proposal’s sponsors. He said the city’s approach to homelessness isn’t working.
“We have to give the mayor the tools that she needs to address this,” he said. “And I think it’s disingenuine that we sit here and say, ‘The mayor is not addressing this enough, the mayor’s not doing enough,’ and we don’t give her the support that she needs legislatively to put into action real change.”
McCormick’s proposal is one of three versions that the Assembly is expected to consider at its meeting Tuesday night. They come at a time when an increasing number of people are becoming homeless in Anchorage, and on the heels of the city clearing its two largest camps…