Under Mayor Suzanne LaFrance, the vagrancy problem in Anchorage is worsening. While Democrats blamed the former mayor because he was a Republican, their chosen leader has all-but failed to address the problem of criminal vagrancy and chronic homelessness among the population of inebriates, drug addicts, and parolees.
Since LaFrance was sworn in on July 1, 2024, the vagrant encampments have exploded around the city.
A conservative estimate shows that Anchorage has spent at least $14.66 million for specific homelessness-related programs and services in 2024, in addition to other unspecified costs, such as camp abatement, administrative costs, or other grants, which would drive that figure far higher.
We took a tour of some of them this week to show you just what Anchorage residents are having to deal with this summer, as they avoid trails, green spaces, and local parks. Here is the photographic evidence of Anchorage, a city in crisis in 2025:
See our previous coverage of the city in decline, with more photos, at these links:
There’s an old saying, “if you build it, they will come”. The leftist assembly and non-voting residents built it so here they come!
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They look just like the camps in WA state. Lots of trash, plastics, tarps, stolen bicycles, burned out cars, and I presume lots of human waste to complement all this with a wonderful aroma. Very third world, which is the goal.
It’s hard to accept that this is all intentional. But as you observed, it is. I lived here before the 1st Brother Francis Shelter was built. Back then, only a handful of street people largely only in the downtown bar district. I care about people and hate to see them living this way.
One of the problems, is they’re drifters from the lower 48. Once they hear about our PFD, they come up here to spend the time of the waiting period as a homeless person, then they can get their $$ for pot and the drugs.
So that’s why the state keeps lowering the amount…to keep the state from being flooded with useless eaters. It all makes sense now and I see just how smart our legislators are.
You have to have an address to receive a PFD.
It really simple, create a problem then tax the hell out of the people to solve it and you and your buddies make a killing on compassion.
While the mindless hordes our schools have trained scream more money for education, more money for government programs, more DEI, etc.
The most accurate statement except for one point. Homelessness is not a problem but rather a symptom.
You can care till the cows come home. These people make their choices. They can live with the consequences of their poor decisions like the rest of us
This is the proud work of the Anchorage assembly.
The area south of Davis Park is about the scariest place imaginable; a monument to Suzanne LaFrance, Chris Constant, Meg Zalatel and their Comrades on the Assembly. They must be so proud.
These diseases are all very preventable. Stop voting Democrat.
Just look at LaFrance. She is a poster child of an unhealthy woman who should not be anywhere near leadership duty.
You can see it with your own eyes. Remember during the pandemic when she was so afraid of breathing air she would slingshot her mask back into place after each drink of water?
If a leader uses fear as their tool to control the masses, then they are not leaders at all. They are a disease.
Stop electing disease.
Stop referring to elected representatives as “leaders” please. Just stop. I’ve never voted to be led anywhere by a politician.
I remember one of her campaign angles being she had a solution for homelessness in the first one hundred days.
Well…….we’re waiting.
I just got back from Orlando Florida and saw zero homeless (or worse, keffiyehs).
Why?
They have zero Tolerance for loitering, vagrancy, trespassing, shoplifting, littering, panhandling, public urination and excrementation, public intoxication, and simple assault.
Anchorage dedicates it’s law enforcement to the Glenn Hwy to catch people going 7 mph over the speed limit.
Revenue generation.
Anchorage is a sh//hole city.
Hey guys, we have nothing to worry about. Our downtown will be REVITALIZED if we just incorporate a sales tax. It will also fix the issue of outmigration in our town. Everyone knows that the reason people leave Anchorage is the lack of sales tax. Maybe next time it gets proposed we will be lucky and get it passed. I really can’t believe people are not flocking to Anchorage with our wonderful downtown occupiers, tremendous school system, and constantly increasing taxes which seemingly solve every issue we’ve ever had. I know for a fact that the tourists see these downtown conditions and instantly make plans to move here.
Sarcasm, ahhh what a fine vintage
the savior is not doing her job. Should be an investigation. I see that dump all the time when i go store. All of them should be recalled. It’s disgusting what they did and continue destroying Anchorage. When you have people continuing going there and giving out handouts. There going to stay. Seen a hope truck there today handing out bags. It’s a racket and how the Military base lets this continue on. When it is there land we lease. Wheres the health department, camping enforcement, epa etc.. they don’t care.
What I don’t get is all the people of anchorage who don’t vote to get this changed out. No one cares.
Hey, many of us do vote, but there are some who don’t care to vote in the Muni vote..They’ll vote in November but not in April where it REALLY counts. This is where we’re losing the vote.. and they win.,
A friend decided to have a picnic in Valley of the Moon park. As soon as the grill was fired up and meat was on the homeless showed up and asked for food. Of course, they said yes. The homeless then helped themselves to a piled up plates and sat with the group. They went back for seconds before they left! I doubt they will be back for such an event!
Humorously, there are some monster encampments along the Chester Creek and Cambell Creek greenbelts. Some are rather sophisticated: stolen outhouses, shower tents, generators, dedicated cooking areas… I suppose those are the smart homeless people, who stay out of the way and probably have jobs but like to live outside. However, after having about $5k stolen just this year from my family’s business, it is intolerable and unforgiveable. What a useless woman the mayor is. Grandstanding egomaniac constantly pushing progressive bullcrap. I’m about to start sending bills to the Muni for lost merchandise because it is ridiculous that they have done nothing about this.
Davis Park is so SAD! All three of my girls played softball there. Everything has changed for the worse. Watch out Anchorage we are becoming San Francisco. Tourists be careful!
Thank the progressive leftists who know everything better and refuse to listen to anyone else. They voted for this along with the non-voters. They wanted it, they got it. They elected know it all, Incompetent Mayor Karen Lafrance and the Assembly who wanted to spread the homeless problem all over town and make it so welcoming for them so we can all pay for it.
Then give the schools all your pfd and money while they Don’t teach your children how to read,
write, do math, etc., so they can be successf in life. Keep them stupid and dependent on the gov’t so they have to vote for you and your handouts, while you and your cronies pay yourselves big salaries, pensions, benefits to run the bureaucracy and programs. Gov’t and legislature self serving corruption at it’s finest. Sure, just keep voting for these thieves, that’ll fix it.
Weird how no comments address how this person got in office. Our elections are fraudulent and pretending they are not is destroying Anchorage and the country. Oh, but I’m sure everything will be fine if you just vote hard enough.
It may seem that way. but ANC is BLUE, without question.
They progs don’t just win, they win in landslides.
If it was rigged, then how did we get Bronson?
And 2 terms of Dan Sullivan.
Even the ANC GOP legislators (Mia Costello etc…) vote w/ Dems when they get to Juno.
That’s how Blue ANC is even our conservatives are liberal.
And the developers of apartments at the 4th Ave. Theater site think people will want to live there?
Hey, now wait just one minute, now!
Don’t we have names for our road graders and dump trucks? Isn’t that enough for you people?
How comical is it that, like Trump playing a video proving genocide, this photographic evidence proving the leftist assembly / leftist mayor failure, not one of the leftist trollers that commonly post freely on this site have commented. I guess their cognitive dissonance is overwhelmed with hard photographic evidence.
And, we are all waiting for the leftists that regularly troll MRAK to show up and say this is the fault of conservatives, or that LaFrance is doing a fantastic job, or anyone who does not want to see this has no empathy at all.
Come on leftists. Defend this.
It would seem that once a place like Davis Park has been cleared – at great cost and difficulty – the pinheads in charge would monitor it and prevent it from happening again. But no. They’ll just let it fill right back up and ignore it as before.
There are no physical solutions to a spiritual problem.
Sierra Mike, in theory you may have an argument, and I concur that this is a spiritual problem. However please consider the story below…
I once constructed a Parking Garage/ Transportation Center / Peoples Park in Juneau. About a year after we were finished with the project I was to meet with a City Architect to look at some grass seeding remediation at the Peoples Park. I had brought my 12 year old son along with me. As the three of us approached the Park I noticed two men, (homeless)on a park bench. In broad daylight one of the men was performing oral sex on the other man!
Society by needs has to have protections in place to shield our children, our women and yes even our livestock from such perversions. Also there are health related concerns associated with garbage and human waste issues.
I disagree that there are not Physical Solutions to the problem described above. One answer might be, I dunno, Mental Hospitals?
If you knowingly vote for incompetence that is what you will get.
If you don’t vote, you will get what others think you deserve.
Unfortunately, the worker bees are tired of cleaning up the piles of the incompetence’ piles of crap and stuff and are just done with it all.
This is what your “leaders” think of the citizens…not much,huh??
I was a pipeline worker almost 50 years ago. It’s hard to believe this is the same place. The people sleeping in parks and campgrounds back then were here for jobs, great jobs. So what happened? The resources are still in the ground. The world still needs and uses these resources. So why don’t we develop them?
Shortly after the pipeline I worked in Villages along the Yukon River. It was clear back then that people had money. The AC Stores had sno-go’s, boat motors, and other equipment in the store. Now, everyone needs government support.
We, Alaskans must start supporting development in Our State. Maybe then homeless people will have a chance to get out of their malaise. Maybe the jobs and money will flow once again.
A mild correction Suzanne. It’s not the “drugs, alcohol and pot” ruining Anchorage. That’s like blaming guns for crime. Much like the line from Soylent Green “It’s people!!” And those who will advocate for advanced rights for the losers and takers in society. Please don’t blame inanimate objects for the greed, sloth and corrupt hearts that justify the poor choices and behavior of PEOPLE.