The Party for Socialism and Liberation in Anchorage has kicked off a “Housing for All” campaign, presenting a sweeping platform of demands aimed at addressing the city’s mounting homelessness and housing crisis. The group, part of a national Marxist–Leninist party, is calling on the Municipality of Anchorage to take immediate action.
Here are the six key demands at the start of their campaign:
Designate the Anchorage Golf Course as a transitional housing area.
PSL proposes using the municipal Golf Course land to host temporary shelters and facilities for people experiencing homelessness, arguing that underused city land could serve urgent public need. The 18-hole public golf course is located on O’Malley Road, far from social services.
Most of Anchorage’s homeless population is made up of criminals, vagrants, and drug- and alcohol addicts who have already taken over many city parks and have used them for criminal activities including arson.
Ban all short‑term housing rentals.
They want the city to prohibit Airbnb-style rentals citywide, claiming such conversions reduce affordable housing stock and drive up rents.
Create a municipal housing authority.
PSL calls for a publicly controlled agency to oversee housing allocation, development, and regulation.
This proposal would likely lead to rent controls as in San Francisco and other socialist-run cities.
Seize abandoned properties through eminent domain.
The group advocates using city powers to take over ownership of unused buildings and land, then repurposing them for public housing.
Build social housing units.
PSL demands the development of municipally or publicly funded housing stock available at “affordable rates” that prioritize low-income residents.
Declare housing a public health emergency and a human right.
They urge the Assembly to pass resolutions recognizing the housing crisis as a health emergency—and ally it with a human‑rights framework.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Marxist–Leninist political party associated with hardline Democrats that emerged nationally in 2004. It aims to replace capitalism with a socialist economy where basic needs, like housing, healthcare, and education, are guaranteed for all. In Anchorage, the PSL has been active in housing advocacy, staging winter shelter events and highlighting inequities in rental and homelessness trends.
Housing for all?
Let’s import the nations homeless population and solve everyone’s problem.
Bernie Sanders for president!
At least the squatters could play a round of golf after a morning meth hit and before toddy time after a nap on the green.
Unreal and Not reality based. So maybe the PSLs and their sympathizers should all be the first to donate their Own houses and properties to the cause. That is, if they have any… And why stop there? Give everyone a free house, just like Oprah: You get a house, and You get a house, and You get a house…
The only PSL we need are Pumpkin Spice Lattes.
Ha HA! These people are funny. Brain dead but still funny.
’cause all of those idea have worked so well in other cities…
Lock them ALL up. They are a danger to themselves and the community. There, I said it. All together now!
It would be cheaper to ship the commies and their number one cheerleader, Senator Elvi Gray Jackson to Russia or China…
The land and government of their dreams‼️
Naturally, a group like this would be interested in eliminating businesses and subsequent employment when the architects and members of said group don’t want to work or create employment opportunities for anyone.
The end game, while in plain sight to thinking humans, is the death of the host (businesses and the employed) thus, eliminating their source of funding altogether. Once complete, the people championing this lifestyle will eat themselves thus ensuring their Lord of the Flies demise.
Unfortunately, I’m sure that our Assembly (George Martinez of Occupy Wall Street fame) might be in full support of this.
Anchorage doesn’t have a large homeless problem, it has a huge substance abuse, mental illness, and leftist democrat problem.
How many of these dear party members have worked their way through college, paid off their student loans, and purchased and maintained their own homes?
How many have paid for their own car insurance or health insurance before they graduated college?
How many of them volunteer at homeless shelters or give their time and talents helping out at Beans Cafe, Downtown Hope Center, or Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission?
How many of them know what it means to “be the change you want to see in the word,” instead of demanding that the City or State step in to re-distribute others’ money to provide housing and healthcare for those who refuse to make the effort to get clean and sober and hold down jobs to provide for themselves?
How many entitlement-addicted, bottle-fed brats in Anchorage belong to the Party for Socialism and Liberation? Where are their parents? Were they raised in day care centers and public schools and after school care programs since they were six weeks old, now molded into brainwashed puppets who don’t know what it means to live a truly human life?
Honest questions.
Funny how these American communists never take the plunge and move to China, or Cuba? Come on: set an example for us!
I like how these groups always “demand” all their wants. No suggestions or commentary. I guess that’s how communists work. Also, no mention of how they would plan to pay for and administer these wonderful ideas.
Let them live IN THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. Let them live at the Rasmussen Art Museum. The Unionist Left wants to Destroy all opposition. They have done it to our schools—-Second lowest performance in the Nation. They have Destroyed the Union Public Workforce—-It use to be called Public Service because the PAY wasn’t so hot, now it is a Union Political Machine gobbling up Land, PFD CHECKS, Golf Courses, and any opposition.
Socialism is evil.