‘It’s a good win,’ outgoing Anchorage mayor says of Supreme Court homelessness ruling

A man walks through an encampment in Anchorage’s South Addition neighborhood on June 28, 2024. Julie Greene-Graham, affiliated with the nearby Central Lutheran Church, said the campers and church are trying to be good neighbors to each other. a precedent Friday that protected homeless people from punishment for camping in public spaces when they have nowhere else to go.

He said he doesn’t intend to do anything with the new powers in his final days of his term. Suzanne LaFrance takes over as mayor on Monday. Jemar Alex is living out of a campsite along a major road in the South Addition neighborhood that popped up after campsites around the Chester Creek Trail were recently cleared. Alex said the court’s decision is a bad thing.

Julie Greene-Graham, right, and Jenn Miller talk with people camping near Central Lutheran Church in Anchorage on June 28, 2024. Greene-Graham chairs a Central Lutheran-affiliated nonprofit called In Our Backyard, and Miller works on a United Methodist Church-affiliated project called Showered in Grace that makes a mobile shower unit available to the needy.

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