Anchorage mayor proposes buying plane tickets to fly homeless residents elsewhere

A proposal by the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, to fly homeless people to warmer climates or other Alaska cities met resistance as a Band-Aid solution to the issue.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.

A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless

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