City to clear 2 major Anchorage homeless camps early this summer

Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said her administration is working to ramp up the clearing of major homeless camps.

At a press conference Wednesday, she said her team would start to abate two large homeless campsites at Davis Park in Mountain View and the nearby snow dump site in early summer.

“Encampments are dangerous,” LaFrance said. “They’re not safe for the people living in them. They’re not safe for people living near them. Let me also be clear that being homeless is not a crime.”…

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