Alaska Mayor to Solve Growing Homelessness Crisis by Offering One-Way Tickets to Warmer Climates

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson (R) told the Anchorage Daily News on Monday that his administration plans to provide homeless residents free one-way plane tickets to “go where they want to go” ahead of Alaska’s grueling winter temperatures.

City officials estimate that Anchorage is home to more than 750 homeless people.

“We have 40% of the population of the state, and we have 65% of the homeless population in the state. Our taxpayers here can’t keep footing that entire bill. This is a statewide problem. … If that’s the way it’s going to be, this needs a statewide solution, especially in the funding space,” Bronson stated.

The mayor blamed the city’s growing homelessness population on other Alaskan cities sending their homeless and “problematic people” to Anchorage, forcing the city’s taxpayers to carry a disproportionate burden of a statewide problem. (Read more from “Alaska Mayor to Solve Growing Homelessness Crisis by Offering One-Way Tickets to Warmer Climates” HERE)

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