Chaos isn’t compassion. It’s time to restore order in Anchorage

Keith McCormick, Jared Goecker and Scott Myers

COMMENTARY

Anchorage is at a crossroads. We have reached a point of normalizing the sprawling, unauthorized encampments that have taken over many of our public spaces. They cause serious harm to both the neighborhoods they spring up in and to the campers themselves, who often become trapped in cycles of addiction and dysfunction. There is no version of these camps that promotes well-being.

They are fundamentally incompatible with healthy lives and with a healthy city.

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