Anchorage policing of homeless encampments will hinge on U.S. Supreme Court decision

A lot of people were living in tents and under tarps in the woods at Anchorage’s Mountain View snow dump, pictured here on June 27, 2023. Anchorage city workers posted signs here and at Davis Park warning that they’d be back to clear away the encampments.

The High Court heard arguments Monday in a case from Grants Pass, Oregon, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had earlier ruled that unhoused people are allowed to camp on public property if there isn’t enough indoor shelter space for them. And because Alaska is also in the Ninth Circuit’s jurisdiction, that ruling has so far stood for Anchorage and many other cities struggling to deal with growing populations of people experiencing homelessness..

And so what that has meant in Anchorage, and many other western cities is a real proliferation of outdoor camping by unhoused people. And there’s a lot of different factors driving that, an overall huge rise in just the number of unhoused people living in a city. But what the cities have said, is this ruling, it just ties their hands, it doesn’t allow them to really regulate homeless encampments in any way. And they say that’s a problem.

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