Print article In the nonpartisan race for Anchorage mayor, homelessness is a top priority in several candidates’ platforms. With 15 candidates, opponents say they will take varying and in some cases, quite different approaches to the city’s homelessness crisis. Some candidates, including former Anchorage municipal manager Bill Falsey and former Assembly member Bill Evans,
have specific ideas to address
the visible aspects of homelessness, such as homeless camps. At the East Anchorage Mayoral Forum this week, Falsey criticized the city’s past response to cleaning up camps and said that he has been “very frustrated with the municipality’s pace of progress.”