Contest: Mayor LaFrance named the city snowplows. We invite readers to name this vagrant shantytown

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Suzanne Downing
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Last month, Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance held a naming contest to name the city’s various snowplow equipment. She announced the winners, as Must Read Alaska wrote about in this report, which features the growing outdoor-living community in downtown Anchorage:

Welcome to downtown Anchorage: A pictorial tour of how Mayor LaFrance is managing the visitor season

Must Read Alaska has written about downtown vagrancy and about the elaborate greenbelt shantytowns popping up all over Anchorage.

Urban trails are unsafe and downtown streets are smeared with human excrement. At night, walkers must be careful to not stumble over bodies.

But at least we have fun names for the snowplows in Anchorage: The Berminator, Taylor Drift, Blizzard Wizard, Luke Sidewalker, and Bladey Gaga. For whatever reason, no one offered Duck-Duck, Here Comes the Truck.

In the same civic spirit, we bring you a chance to name the homeless sprawl of tents and tarps along the Glenn Highway across from Davis Park. It’s a scene that’s not on LaFrance’s radar but can be viewed by commuters every day.

Here are some photos of the growing shanty encampment and what it looked like Wednesday:

Anchorage vagrant camps

Suggestions that have come in already include “Camp Trashmore” and “Camp It’s Complicated.”

Put your suggestions below, but keep it clean, not trashy, like these tarps and stolen whatnot decorating the Glenn Highway.

Glenn Highway shantytown

125 COMMENTS

  12. LaFrance’s city beautification projects. It’s depressing what our beautiful city is being turned into now. Breaks my heart…

  31. Vive La France
    Uv-all-De-Gallville
    Bethel II
    Merde-town, Merdeville, Ft. La Merde, Ft. La France
    Devilsclub Scrub

  47. Chateau de Rast, tents in the woods.

    LaFrance’s lost children, homes for the incontinent.

    Megs money pits.

  51. I think the homeless camps a more like an art installation representing the actual accomplishments of this Assembly.

    • Trump has nothing to do with this sh#t show. This is an Anchorage ASSembly creation and your tax dollars are funding it.

    • Valley Kid; can you please show the class exactly how this is Trump’s fault?

      Show your work.

      (CNN, MSNBC are not valid sources)

    • Maybe the dried turds can be gathered and shellaced and sold to the tourists like they have marketed the moose nuggets for decades as “Alaskan” art.

  67. Maison LaFrance
    Maison de Merde
    Le Grand Hôtel LaFrance
    The Peoples’ Pharmacy
    Fire Starter Academy
    Voter Registration Office
    Teachers’ Union Office
    Code Enforcement Office
    Democrat Party Headquarters
    Constant’s Commune
    Zalatel’s Zoo
    Rancho Rivera
    Turdwood

  71. Camp Meg Zaletel, since she made so much money on this subject. Actually photos should be forwarded to President Trump showing this mess out side Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. That the Government owns I believe and lease to the city. Cancel the lease you can’t play sports there any more. Also let’s see, three fires and two murders so far. Drive by all the time as a resident of Mountain View. Pics are not showing the actual mess it really is. Garbage all over the place makes city dump look like a 4 star hotel. Looks like dumpster was set on fire also recently as i drove by today. My Son came into town for visit with Grandkids and stopped at Circle k for gas and was propositioned by a female she would take care of him for a ride across town. He said look I have my Daughters with me get away. I have complained about this place several times. They clean it up and then move back in. Time to enforce laws or bring in DOGE for audit and Gov needs to declare Marshall law as city is a damn train wreck and getting worse.

    • Care to expound how Trump contributed to a local government (Assembly) that’s been controlled by leftists for 2-3 consecutive Mayoral terms? Since Berkowitz, the Assembly has been in control of the homeless plight non-stop. Throw in former Mayor Mark Begich – who now with former Governor Bill Walker – make their money receiving contracts from said Assembly via housing the homeless. Why attempt to cure the problem when you can make bank on other’s misery. So, Bern, feel to opine on your massively ignorant post.

      • Brad, you are correct. I remember the “homeless emergency” Ethan Berkowitz declared way back when.
        So we should name some of those camps “Ethan’s Plight” or “Berkowitz’s Folly”!

  77. LaFranchorage

    Drunken Chesterville

    Blue Tarptopia

    Felony Acres

    Vagrancy Village

    Litterbug Heights

    CrackPipe Alley

    Stolen Tent Garden

    Bumhumpingberg

    Chateau Zalatel

    Hepatitis Heights

    MERSA Meadows

  78. Northern Zombification Project
    Breaking Bad: North Portland
    Hell of Many Tarps
    Make Anchorage Great Again
    Antifa Headquarters North
    Neighborhood Of The Year 1978
    Unburdened By What Has Been
    The Rez
    Megan Zaletel Memorial Park

  86. Good to remember that virtually all items in these squatter camps were stolen. And they do it with impunity! But have the parking meter run out of time downtime and you will receive an expensive ticket. The selective enforcement is alarming.

    • To blame President Trump for this is as ridiculous as your comment. Liberalism is a mental illness.
      How ‘bout ‘Dougie’s Dump’😎

  89. Tne New Home of Anchorage Assembly Meetings.
    or
    Bumville
    or
    The Anchorage Toxic Waste Superfund Site.

    It is time, way past time for the Department of Public Health, both state and local to perform an inspection. WHERE THE HELL is the Fire Department?

  90. Camp LaFarce
    Camp Last Chance
    Suzanne’s Last Chance
    The Progressive’s Priory
    Felix’s Farce
    North Bumburg
    Freeport LaFrance
    Poohville LaFrance
    Utopia a LaFrance
    “Welcome to Anchorage!”
    Camp Cloaca
    Megan’s Mudville
    Rivera’s Pig Sty
    Felix’s Pig Sty
    The Progressive Pig Sty
    Bummer-ville

    One’s inability to employ the word 💩💩💩💩 makes this a much more challenging exercise. And I feel badly that Ms. Downing must share her name with this loser of a Mayor.

  92. The city has spent over $250 million on 3100 homeless Why would they want to clean it up when it is so
    profitable for those who are suppose to be combatting this problem. I’ll bet money that Meg Zaletel, executive director of Anchorage Coalition to end homeless, will be joining the Mayor’s staff as soon as she steps down from the Assembly. As said before, when only 19% of people vote, you should not be surprised of the outcome. Just take a walk down 4th ave and see all the boarded up business. Next they will probably be putting cots in Town Square so they don’t have to sleep on the ground. Remember we passed a bond to improve city parks.
    $250,000,000 divided by 3100 = $80,600.00 each

  93. While it’s tempting to name the camp after LaFrance, isn’t she someone’s puppet? Maybe something like “Meg Zaletel Heights” or “Meg Zaletel’s Mayhem” would be more appropriate? “Heights” gives off a lofty vibe and Meg Zaletel made bank off her plan without the responsibility of being designated as Mayor. “Mayhem” describes the destruction many people experience since she helped dismantle Mayor Bronson’s plan for the navigation center. Zaletel was in on almost doubling assembly member’s pay when they had been declaring emergencies and putting hardworking people out of business. Zaletel subsequently took the lead in the homeless response reportedly making six figures thus double dipping with assembly pay and homelessness coordination. Zaletel went from one house in Anchorage to four houses in Anchorage after joining the Anchorage assembly. Most of us are fortunate to own or rent one place but taxes from the assembly’s crummy plans threaten to send even more people to the streets. I don’t believe Anchorage wants this. We need voter reform.

  95. Anchorage Commune of Liberal Utopia (ACLU)

    Welfare Opportunity & Kinky Experience Park (WOKE Park)

    Mental Oblivion & Alcoholism (MOA)

    Democrat Entitled Idiots/DEI Open House

  105. Dear Trump Haters;

    Not once have you responded to the question: how is Anchorage’s homeless camps Trump’s fault? Remember, We’ve had homeless camps long before he was President.

    We ask you how is Anchorage, Alaska’s homeless camps Trumps fault?

    If you can’t answer, you could be humble and admit you might be wrong. We won’t chastise you for admitting you’re wrong.

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