Anchorage clears its 2 largest homeless encampments

Brian Vaughan read the signs that leaned against a barricade of bike parts, scrap metal, furniture and old shopping carts.

“And then the one we made up last night, ‘Coming to a neighborhood near you,’” he said, laughing.

Vaughan was standing on Mountain View Drive on Tuesday morning, next to the snow dump encampment. It’s a place he’d called home for three years. He didn’t want to leave, but the city said he had to — and now. It was abatement day…

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