Robbie Annogiyuk has been disabled his whole life and homeless in Anchorage for nearly two decades. He really depends on his friends to keep going, he said. They take care of him.
They were all camping together near a busy Anchorage intersection until the city cleared the site in mid-November. They prepared to move on, like they had before, determined to stick together.
“You become attached to people,” Annogiyuk said. “We think of ourselves as a family, and we don’t leave anybody behind. Because, I mean, that’s how people die, you know, when you leave ‘em behind.”…